There are four steps to ensuring the quality of external web content for you on the Xsortal.
There is no point having the best content if that content doesn't make any difference to business users.
So the Xsortal editor's spend a great deal of time - before they even think about content results - working out the content structure and type of solutions that will really make a difference to a business user.
Each type of content that you use on the site (e.g. Doing Business in China) goes through a twenty step sourcing procedure that is controlled by human editors. In other words, it doesn't rely on a single search term to produce a result; nor does it rely only on online sources.
What this means is that content results are uniquely and comprehensively cross-referenced to produce the best pool of potential sites for the editors to select for you using transparent, objective criteria.
At the top level, the content editors use 5 main criteria to sort any website; in shorthand this is known as QQRFU* and each type of content has its own unique QQRFU signature with up to 50 different criteria being used to ensure the quality and relevance of the content solutions.
Q = Quantity of the Content Available
Q = Quality of the Content
R = Relevancy of the Content
F = Content Functionality
U = Content Usability
Even if someone could initially produce a set of useful productivity solutions for you, it would be pointless unless it was managed and kept up to date.
The two content tools we use to do this are a daily Keeping-up-to-date Tool and a three monthly Strategic Review Tool.