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"I think the quote about Google being the frontpage to stackoverflow is pretty ridiculous personally." Why? Because its true? There's a lot of content sites I
by qeorge 17y ago
"I think the quote about Google being the frontpage to stackoverflow is pretty ridiculous personally."
Why? Because its true?
There's a lot of content sites I use all the time but never visit directly. Yahoo Answers comes to mind.
- axod 17y agoI just don't think it's a useful state of affairs once a site has tens, even hundreds of millions of pages indexed by google. Why wouldn't you go to Yahoo answers and do a search there? I'm just not too into the business model of "We know about everything", lets get listed for every single search on google. For stackoverflow, personally I don't usually find the content useful, so it's just irritating to have to specify I don't want stackoverflow results. It'd be good if Google could better judge quality of pages, as in "Is this just user generated / scraped content, or is it verified reliable fact".
- ericd 17y agoYou don't go to Yahoo answers directly because you can either search one, or search them all at once. Do you still go to the bakery, then the butcher, then the vegetable stand, or do you go to a supermarket? As for judging quality and verifying as a reliable fact, I agree, that would be excellent. This is something I was thinking about as part of a potential startup. Unfortunately, it's wicked hard to do without resorting to (probably paid) human experts.
- axod 17y ago>> "Do you still go to the bakery, then the butcher, then the vegetable stand, or do you go to a supermarket?" I often still go to the bakery, then the butcher, then the farm shop actually. The quality is far better than anything you get in a supermarket.
- ericd 17y agoHeh actually I wish I had all of those things located nearby, I've never been disappointed when I've spent the time to go to all of those.