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Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers . The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was shut down a few weeks ago. Three years ago , Matt Haughey created Ask MetaFilter , pays no money to those who answer questions, and has turned the site into a successful part of his business using, in part, Google AdSense to support the site.
Randy Stross wrote an interesting article for the New York Times about search with a human touch , and I wanted to talk about the role of people in Google search. On this post, you get not one but *two* disclaimers. It’s all part of my read-one-disclaimer, get-a-free-disclaimer program! My disclaimers are:
So yeah, many of you probably read my headline and thought “duh.” I never had a very favorable impression of the Gateway brand either, but I was in a bind. In January I was starting work on a new project, and I needed to replace a 5 year-old Dell desktop I had been using at home.