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Stack Overflow belongs to a very small elite group of sites (Wikipedia obviously being another) who's existance is what creates the quality of Google search res

• possibilistic 13y ago
  Would it be a threat to Google if all useful information was well-curated, semantic, etc? If developing a search engine became nontrivial, would the hypothetical loss of Google's search product cause them serious problems? I would like to see this happen. Not to harm Google, but rather to make search a problem that doesn't require billions to tackle.
  • ronilan 13y ago
    Well-curated, semantic information is the opposite of a threat. It will make the results better, making the service provided by the provider of the results of higher quality. A threat can only come if the searching audience moves elsewhere to search for [something]; and if [something] is very popular among the searching audience; and if [something] is also very important to individual searcher. Because the reason for moving away can only be if [something] is not available from Google there aren't that many threats. I think last time there was a glimpse of such thing happening was in the summer of 2006, but there are other opinions.
• mathattack 13y ago
  Very true. I used to be very happy when StackOverflow appeared on the list of query results. Then I just started adding StackOverflow to my searches to make sure it was added. :-)