Why is automation emphasized so much within the CompletePlanet site?
• An estimated 1.5 million documents are posted daily on the “surface” Web alone. Automation is the only means to keep pace with the Internet s growth, especially considering the faster growth of “deep” Web searchable databases • Though hand-editing and -culling of documents can lead to the absolute highest quality, reliance on voluntary editors is problematic and hiring a large staff of dedicated editors leads to a high-cost business model • Reliance on automation forces learning to be incorporated from the outset into constantly improving business rules. In essence, a commitment to automation enforces continuous learning as an explicit part of how we operate our company • Quality improvement through automation and learned decision rules is sustainable and can be leveraged for other applications. By employing a comparatively smaller staff of editors for statistical and spot-check QA/QC, we are able to sustain progressive quality improvements through learning new decision rules with ac
