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Agreed--google will likely provide a bunch of traffic. Also, google is not specialized to this niche. Here's an example from 3 weeks ago where google failed to
by ericb 19y ago
Agreed--google will likely provide a bunch of traffic. Also, google is not specialized to this niche. Here's an example from 3 weeks ago where google failed to provide answers that a centralized error lookup site might. Google had little that was relevant for the first several weeks this problem was out and only showed results for an ancient cause of a similar error message. Eventually it picked up a blog post, but 3 weeks is a long time.
http://blog.ra66i.org/archives/informatics/2007/12/23/a-quick-gem-101-faq-gemrunner-name-error/ http://blog.ra66i.org/archives/informatics/2007/12/23/a-quic...
Quote from the person who "fixed" the google bug with a popular blog post:
There's a "problem" with the current version of rubygems that's causing somewhat of a FAQ, that as far as I can see, Google doesn't index too well...
- SwellJoe 19y agoYes, I Google for this kind of thing all the time...and quite frequently don't get good answers. I'm a rare bird, I guess, in the sense that I'm usually looking for answers about other people's systems, and so I'm dealing with hundreds of hardware, OS, version, etc. differences. Most folks only ever deal with a few such variants at any given time. Nonetheless, I can see this being a very useful service...not a terribly profitable one (at least in its early stages), but extremely useful. Assuming people use it, of course.