Ep. 027, People are not good at search

Published: Oct. 19, 2020, 2 p.m.

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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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