– Eric

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Not much updates here, the project is on hold until the end of the year. We have too many projects spinning and had to choose which is more important. Not easy to do, but essential.

Cheers

Sahar

From that perspective:

All actions are effectively experiments that yield new questions, some actions are *only* experiments that yield only the clues to what experiment to try next, or to when to stop experimenting. Judea Pearl approaches this technically with his “algrebra of doing” approach. Jane Jacobs explained the the problem reasonably well in layman’s terms in her last book, “Dark Age Ahead” where she decries the lack of understanding of the scientific “question chain” method in large scale decision making. She is concerned about the way answers are chained together based on axioms in theology, finance, medicine, agriculture, engineering and theorizes that a “Dark Age” comes when the combined assumptions built into many such decisions overwhelms the ability to question. As she said is happening now in North American society in particular.

Back to the search engine, finding which questions are actually related to the topic can be quite difficult. Simple keyword matching to see if the keywords are in the question, as you seem to be doing already, can be useful but I suspect in the long run you need some semantic maps to match terms like “hemochromatosis” that are extremely statistically unlikely to appear in searches on any other topic, thus effectively are queries on cystic fibrosis and should be treated as such. Same for “other names people use for cystic fibrosis”. Integrating RDF and semantic tagging behind the scenes is the standard way to approach this problem. There are some more exciting approaches too in the semantic web and tag community.

Have come to the conclusion that in using SEO and meta tags in each of our “REAL” sites we need to use a more ‘questioning’ approach to our content.

BrutChampagne.com could and should have a headline or tag asking,
“What is brut champagne?”, “Where Can I buy Brut Champagne?”, “How is Brut Champagne made?”

These added tags would certainley assist in indexing these domains and sites in the search engines (and Assista.com?) under terms I have seen used in my logs many times.

Cheers Sahar!

Chris