How a shift in perspective salvaged Boston.com’s local search pr. In 2006, Boston.com launched a local search tool that was supposed to be a big part of the site’s future. The project made perfect sense on paper: Readers would get search results focused on eastern Massachusetts. Those results would mix the best of the machine and human worlds by using algorithms and editors’ picks. Next to the results would be targeted advertising, opening up a lucrative revenue stream. And Boston.com would expand its audience with a useful new service. Or so the thinking went. The reality is that Boston.com’s local search never caught on. Kempf and his team poked at the problem for a year, but an assortment of tweaks didn’t give local search the lift they needed. “We’ve done so well over the last 14 years as a news and information site,” Kempf said.
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