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I think his modesty is well placed. SO has critcal mass within the technical community, but not with the average user
by maukdaddy 17y ago
I think his modesty is well placed. SO has critcal mass within the technical community, but not with the average user
- robryan 17y agoI think thats the most it can ever really hope for without alienating it's users.
- jerf 17y agoIt can't be too far off. Anecdote: In the last three weeks, I've hit a Stack Overflow site in a normal Google query three times, and an ExpertSexChange query once. Out of curiousity, I clicked the SexChange link for completeness, and the score is, StackOverflow 3, ExpertSexChange 0. (Yes, I know about scrolling to the bottom. No answers, just fumbling around and questions.) Granted, I was searching for Erlang and Perl stuff, but that's still a change vs. two months ago. Average users, which I will define as "Googlers", will probably get there soon. (I'm assuming you're not talking about "my grandmother", who will never know what Stack Overflow is. But that would be a very silly standard to apply, so I'm assuming that's not what you're getting at.)