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Are you OK with people using Magic for things that don't result in a purchase? Something like "Is the 4:30 train from Greenwich to NYC late?" or "What hours are
by daxelrod 12y ago
Are you OK with people using Magic for things that don't result in a purchase? Something like "Is the 4:30 train from Greenwich to NYC late?" or "What hours are my local DMV office open?"
"Anything you want" makes it sound like people can use it like they'd use Siri.
- obituary_latte 12y agoSeems like maybe a get-together with Watson api docs is in order.
- rspeer 12y agoWith no pun intended, Watson isn't magic.
- bgvrofg 12y agoThat could be done by charging a standard fee for the operator's time spent searching.
- kanamekun 12y agoOr a Magic Gold premium membership, if people want to ask non commerce questions beyond the first three free ones.
- peteretep 12y agoThere was a UK service called AQA that would answer questions for £1 back in the mid 2000s. They started off super super useful, but quality degraded enough as they scaled that it was no longer worth it. Used to be able to say "which shops in a 20 mile radius have xus in stock", or "who should I complain to about the service in xyz bar" and get great answers, but as they automated it more and more you'd just get back vague info
- LeoPanthera 12y agoI was briefly an AQA employee. You were paid per question, so all you really cared about was how quickly you could send an answer and move onto the next question. The quality of the answer didn't matter, unless the customer complained and got a refund, which virtually never happened.
- dsuth 12y agoPoor metrics win again!
- downandout 12y agoMaybe they could respond "sure, our researchers can find this for you for just $3, here's a link to add your credit card to your profile".
- cmikec 12y agoYeah, we've been receiving a lot of requests like this. Right now we are doing our best to handle them all because we believe that happy users will be purchasing customers. We'll have to see how it goes.