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Another column featured users' own photos, posted according to relevance. Within three minutes, there were 201 photos posted, most of them close corollaries to the face of Fiona Highbridge. On-screen, votes were tallying, indicating which of the photos were most likely her. In four minutes it was down to five prime candidates. (2.23.34)
Notice how the Circle's impressive new search technologies don't actually bother with facial recognition programs but instead tabulate the results of users' votes to determine which woman is most likely to be fugitive Fiona Highbridge? The search tool is using mass guesswork as a substitute for careful analysis and investigation, and it's celebrating the light-speed judgments of the masses as reliable and praiseworthy. Does anyone have any actual evidence that the woman these people find and corner is actually Fiona Highbridge?