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amelius on Sept 23, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Decade at Google

> We then could inspect the query stream to estimate how many queries might be well served by HTML tables.

Hmm.. humans are inspecting the query stream?

asuffield on Sept 24, 2015 | [–]

Yes. Click here and you'll be one of them: https://www.google.com/trends/hottrends/visualize?nrow=5&nco...

There's lots more data over here: http://www.google.com/trends

(I don't believe the author was referring to this, I think he meant something far less interesting.)

hebdo on Sept 23, 2015 | [–]

Obviously not, except for debugging. Scoring logic is most likely where the "secret sauce" of the thing they did is hidden.

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