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I'm interested to see how this develops. I'd hate for google to drop the ball (a la dodgeball, omnisio, etc.). Vark is such a unique, useful service.
by ashishk 17y ago
I'm interested to see how this develops. I'd hate for google to drop the ball (a la dodgeball, omnisio, etc.). Vark is such a unique, useful service.
- icco 17y agoI'd be curious to know how you use the service. Most of the questions I see asked on it seem pretty poor and uninformative.
- martian 17y agoIf you ask an interesting, detailed question, you'll usually get something unique in return. An example of a question (and an awesome answer) I submitted: http://vark.com/t/cad4a0 http://vark.com/t/cad4a0
- frossie 17y agoYou thought that was an awesome answer? IMHO the top Google result for the search "Borges where to start" gives a better one. Like many social networking features, I don't get this one. I sorta-know what my friends know - I am more interested in stuff my friends don't know.
- jackowayed 17y agoIt's not just limited to your friends. I have a fairly small network on vark (~8 people I think), but I think only 1 time have I actually gotten a question from one of my friends. It extends to friends of friends and even just random people if it doesn't think your friends know or they choose not to answer. I've also never actually gotten a question from a friend.
- yeeyay 17y agoWhy not Yahoo Answers? I have used it and gotten pretty satisfactory answers thus far. Infact, I posed your exact same question on Y A now and I already have an answer. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au8X0fm5n8cpX9DAQIDHq9_sy6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100211180722AAy1SN5 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Au8X0fm5n8cpX9D...
- ashishk 17y agoIt's good with niche questions that only a human could help with. I've had luck with social questions ("where's the yscraper located?") and tech questions ("why's my jscript [code here] breaking in IE6?"). It's like stackoverflow, but "real-time" and not limited to coding questions only.