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In the early days of Google, when I worked on websearch, if people asked me what I did there, I'd say: "I answer all the queries that start with S."


I remember around 2005 there were marquee displays in every lobby that showed a sample of recent search queries. No matter how hard folks tried to censor that marquee (I actually suspect no one tried very hard) something hilariously vile would show up every 5-10 mins.

I remember bumping into a very famous US politician in the lobby and pointing that marquee out to him just as it displayed a particularly dank query.


Still exists today. It's a position called Search Quality Evaluator. 10'000 people who work for Google whose task is to manually drag and drop the search results of popular search queries.

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