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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

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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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guess we replaced Google
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