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> "why would someone use your engine over Google" as a reasonably good question, as opposed to "nobody is going to use your engine over Google because it's a ho
by randrews 5y ago
> "why would someone use your engine over Google" as a reasonably good question, as opposed to "nobody is going to use your engine over Google because it's a household verb".
Well, one of these is a question, the other is a statement... Actually I noticed that if you look at his examples of what not to say, none of them are questions. So maybe a better idea is "don't say discouraging things to your founder friends, ask them questions instead."
- kazinator 5y agoThose statements are not grammatically questions, but they are questioning statements. You can easily turn them into rhetorical questions: "LOL, do you really think someone is going to use your search engine over Google?"