Submission + - Google employees will now alter search results 1
An anonymous reader writes: I read a new term today "googlewashing" from The Register in a thought provoking article about "Google this week admitted that its staff will pick and choose what appears in its search results. It's a historic statement — and nobody has yet grasped its significance... For if Google was applying subjective human judgment directly on the process, it would be akin to the voting machines being rigged..." The author does not state that google will alter results to favor their own properties, control stories, manage the world's perception of google or otherwise, simply that this is a monumental change from the historical stance of it-is-all-in-the-algorithms.