Adria Kyne was in Seattle pursuing a Ph.D. in\xa0Chinese Archaeology when the Dot Com boom pulled her into the software industry. Search\xa0engines were at war\xa0and Microsoft was determined to win the battle with a combination of human curation and machine classification.\xa0 This led to a 20-year career\xa0bringing rigor and truth to\xa0search technology and search marketing - an industry often rife with snake oil salesmen and pseudoscience. We also talk about larping and how that hobby led to\xa0Adria\xa0appearing on a reality TV show.
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