TechnologyEnglish • 7 months ago

Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

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Before Smartphones, an Army of Real People Helped You Find Stuff on Google

TechnologyEnglish • 7 months ago

Not too long ago, services like GOOG-411, 118 118 and AQA used actual humans to answer questions with witty responses and encyclopedic knowledge. Today’s search engines could learn something.

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I had heard of them but had no idea there were so many of them or that they were so successful

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