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Nothing New Under the Sun (Humanic Search Engines, part 2)
NextStage: Predictive Intelligence, Persuasion Engineering, Interactive Analytics and Behavioral Metrics This is the second entry in the Nothing New Under the Sun (Humanic Search Engines) arc. We pick up with the intersection of Progress Software and the ChaCha search engine.

Progress had invited NextStage to create a "success" metric. ...

This metric could be used to determine which partner was going to be the most successful, which meant it could be used to predict a company's likelihood of success, which meant it could be used to determine which companies it would be a good idea to partner with (for the record, NextStage picked "four for four" of the top economic performers in the Progress partner stable simply by analysing all the partner homepages using its TargetTrackTM tool. This is documented in Chapter 4 of Reading Virtual Minds).

During the conversations around creating that success metric, we talked about what Progress was doing to make itself more search-friendly. One thing they'd done was hire a bunch of "search experts" and by that I mean "people who really know how to search real well". These weren't SEO companies per se although some may have worked at search engine companies and optimizers at the time. What they were, more to the point, were people who were SMEs in how to search. These SMEs were hired by different companies to do two basic things. ...

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