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This is amazing. Google will really do well with this, they need to branch into ecommerce as their ad business isn't growing much. With mobile gaining traction

by unz 13y ago

This is amazing. Google will really do well with this, they need to branch into ecommerce as their ad business isn't growing much. With mobile gaining traction, this could be a central hub for a decentralized solopreneur economy, even inside corporations. You can consult your lawyer, accountant, doctor, pharmacist right from your tablet and be charged through this interface. Even better, your lawyer/doctor etc. is based in india and charge a 10th of the cost. Also, great to watch and charge babysitters, mechanics, cleaners etc. Also, supervising factory workers in china. The factory has telecommute robot for rent floating around and you log in and do some checking on your product being produced. If google record and analyze the videos, they could even run some machine learning on this and turn into automated robots that carry out the task. Great idea, an app store for people peddling that could turn into an artificial intelligence robot.

RDeckard 13y ago
Didn't they already have a similar service (similar to Yahoo Answers, but I forget the name), where people got paid to answer other people's questions? Only for the service to be shutdown some years later. Anyone remember the name?
- gummydude 13y ago
  Google Answers. lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
- unz 13y ago
  The problem with that was that you can just type stuff into google and search it yourself (google answers). The alternative is a few minutes of typing. This is different, it's for physical work monitoring, and where real time face to face interaction is valued. Alternatives to this are get in a car, rent an office, get on a plane.
- nvarsj 13y ago
  Google answers was awesome, probably the service I miss the most from Google. It was a lot like the stack*.com sites these days, but generally higher quality as people paid for answers.

by unz 13y ago

RDeckard 13y ago

Didn't they already have a similar service (similar to Yahoo Answers, but I forget the name), where people got paid to answer other people's questions? Only for the service to be shutdown some years later. Anyone remember the name?

gummydude 13y ago
Google Answers. lol http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers
unz 13y ago
The problem with that was that you can just type stuff into google and search it yourself (google answers). The alternative is a few minutes of typing. This is different, it's for physical work monitoring, and where real time face to face interaction is valued. Alternatives to this are get in a car, rent an office, get on a plane.
nvarsj 13y ago
Google answers was awesome, probably the service I miss the most from Google. It was a lot like the stack*.com sites these days, but generally higher quality as people paid for answers.