> (a) having stuff in google results from other sites Yeah. Programmers now give really nice answers to basic questions about the up and coming tech on their p

> (a) having stuff in google results from other sites Yeah. Programmers now give really nice answers to basic questions about the up and coming tech on their personal/company blogs. Also, SO benefited from having a decent code formatting in a time where code blocks looked horrible pretty much everywhere else. They lost that edge.