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"Nice thread over at SEO Chat named Is Google really totally automated?, which asks the question \"Is Google totally automated?\".  There is a poll set up and currently 80% responded \"Google is mostly automated, say 98%, but some human tweaks have to be added\", 11.5% responded \"Absolutely! Google Algorithm is 100% automated! No human factors are involved at all!\" and the remaining 7.5% responded \"Google is just 60% to 70% automated\".Mike Grehan's search engine book has a wealth of information in it.  One of the interviews in the back of the book, I believe, contains an interview with some search engine representatives.  In one, I believe, Mike asks this question.  Do the search engines ever tweak the results to push a very popular site to the top manually.  The response, I believe, was yes they do but not often.  Google did not admit to this, but it would not surprise me if Google has some Q&amp;A people do this on occasion."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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