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It's also full of inaccuracies. The "interesting details" are largely wrong. Unfortunately it's written in an authoratative style, so people assume it's true an
by paul 16y ago
It's also full of inaccuracies. The "interesting details" are largely wrong. Unfortunately it's written in an authoratative style, so people assume it's true and upvote, demonstrating one of the major flaws in vote based systems.
- johnfn 16y agoI suppose, before I upvote you, that I should ask you for sources then.
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- marze 16y agoWhat do you consider the best available information on google's history?
- greenlblue 16y agoPlus, quora is not really living up to it's promise of a high quality question/answer social site. Most questions and answers are as inane as on yahoo answers and the only difference is the more pleasing UI but that wears off pretty quickly.
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- Retric 16y agoI don't know it seems to have a reasonable summery: The most common decisions cited are: * Realizing that search was important. * Focusing on speed. * Maintaining corporate control. * Focusing on the user experience and deferring revenue. * Scaling out computation over a large number of cheap computers. * Hiring very smart people.
- resdirector 16y agoAgreed re voting systems. I believe that a good Q&A site should use "voting" to recursively find smart people who are similar to you and can provide you with good answers....as opposed to showing the most popular/well-written/pithiest answer. "PeopleRank", maybe.
- jamiequint 16y agoI agree with this and have been saying it for a while. Quora could avoid inaccuracies like this one by weighting a person's answer on a topic based on their endorsements in PageRank fashion. e.g. I endorse you on Google, which has more weight if I am myself endorsed on Google with the weight increasing based on the number of times I am endorsed and how many people have endorsed the people endorsing me and so on. I'm relatively sure Quora will do this eventually.
- joe_the_user 16y agoThat's an interesting idea. The problem is preventing this leading a site dominated by a group of people who share a set of extreme opinions of one sort or another. There's no now site where you can't get karma for reinforcing some commonly held group opinion and if Karma became self-reinforcing, the problem would get harder. It might not be impossible - maybe you could have secret algorithm for rewarding people only for making well-respected non-polarizing posts. But it would be quite tricky.
- resdirector 16y agoAh, yup, there's ways around that. The Q&A PeopleRank idea will probably be my next start-up, if Vark doesn't beat me to it. Reading http://blog.vark.com/?p=352 http://blog.vark.com/?p=352, it seems that they're on the right track. (Although their UX is a little clunky). However, even if Vark builds a kick-ass product, you can still apply the PeopleRank idea to news-sites like HN. Anyone interested in building a Q&A/news site feel free to message me.
- mleonhard 16y agoI started building a site that works kind of like that. It is essentially a reddit clone that will rank articles by how likely you are to vote them up. I put it on hold and decided to first build a product that users would pay for. But I would still like to build this site someday, or use it if someone else builds it first.
- blueberry 16y agohey paul! why don't you write an answer there, instead of commenting here? the quoran community could benefit too :)