Answer me like a human
If I know anything of anything, the Internet was invented for the storage and exchange of information. With the current state of affairs when the sea flooded with various information from the user's head, the problem of finding the right part of it is complicated in the extreme: you do not just been in a situation where the required information as if it were not there at all and find it using a search engine does not seem possible. Therefore it is not so long ago were popular ideas metasearch machines on the fly analyzing issuing multiple search engines and choosing the most relevant (to them, of course, taste) response.
But - the machine is a machine, so the quality of search and to this day can be hard to call poor. To complicate matters more, and the inability to ordinary user to correctly formulate its request that it be understood, not only him but also the machine. Learn to think like a machine is difficult and much easier to explain what you are looking for another homo sapiens than the search engine.
Therefore, services are questions and answers as a necessary complement to the engine seemed to me to find not just a "promise" or "vebdvanolnymi", but above all necessary for "the Internet with a human face", facing the person to person.
The most popular such service we have in Russia is without much doubt, otvety.mail.ru. Just go at it and see the speed of the responses to the main page: page per minute of 20 questions completed in full (for example: at the same time on the responses from the google page is filled with 30 questions in 38 minutes (!), And Yandex and 10 on the Question-filled pages to stop time. Attendance Service, of course, an ambitious but precisely because of the attendance issues introduced immediately replaced by a fresh and for a short time until your question still hangs in the main, it will scan in-general, not so much people, among them, most likely, there will be no expert on the topic of your question.
Still, questions and answers services are perceived as involuntary human complement standard search engine, so the placement of questions and answers within the search engines - quite logical and understandable decision. Why waste the visitors? Did not find an answer in search? - Try the "Questions and Answers." Did not find it? - Pick up a postcard :)
Today, their own questions and answers have And more recently - and Yandex: . And the problem with all these services alone, or rather two: the absence of the user weight of Experts on narrow topics and a large attendance, which leads to a mass of pink ribbon of slag in the general issues that buries thematic issues, and creates an atmosphere in the service incomprehensible. This problem is best understood in Google.ru. Anyway, the only ones I have seen a proposal for the implementation of thematic issues mailing experts on relevant topics to email: agree, this is an order of magnitude better "otvechaemost."
And while these services are things like "Ether" dointernetnoy era (remember, what is it?), There are alternative services. One of them even give you an example: this web site issues has a functional no worse than his eminent rivals. Even I was pleasantly surprised that slaed cms, which is built on the site that allows you to create such services are heaped. And since this site is so similar to the samples, together with the advantages it copies the same problem: the breadth of topics and experts leads to the absence of such statistics, "is set to 702 questions, 4 of which have a solution" (statistics in plain view, next to the form for registration).
So, to make a successful search engine competition in the subject of human responses to the questions can not? Below I will try to show that there is not impossible, and even more than that: it is necessary. Because services are available today with the task to cope with a minus three. Of course, in the framework and rules that are defined for a certain question and answer service, owned by search engines, play with them difficult. But knowing their basic problems (few experts and a large mass of non-thematic issues), you can come up with a working solution.
If you think about it, the most logical way out would be not to seek expert on the side, as does Google, and hosted services themselves questions and answers in a place where experts are already present in excess. If the mountain will not come to Mohammed ... You see the idea? - That is on the discussion forums, where, incidentally, is also great difficulty in finding the information you need, why Kobita admins do not get tired of repeating: "People who use the search!" And people would be glad to use it, but when introduced to the question of search by clicking the link above gives a million pages with a reference to the title phrase ... Sift this issue is worth a lot.
And how nice it would have its own theme service "FAQ", for example, serche. Here and respected forum members are known to all, and the topic is narrow enough to guarantee the absence of flooding in the main belt issues. You can give the right of reply when a certain credibility, and earn points to spend on the responses, for example, advertising services or services that belong to the experts. I must say that trying to organize something like this is: this section . But it only section of the forum, with all its shortcomings forum related to the complexity of the search: now section contains 477 pages, and that, if the search phrase you have on each of them?
You agree with me?
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March 5, 2009 at 21:17
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March 5, 2009 at 23:07
Yes, no question, Dennis: put a link, I answer in the next post. By the way, pay attention to . Google recognizes your site as malicious.
March 5, 2009 at 23:17
Poiskovyi_robot, strangely enough, like all rules of the blog (
March 6th, 2009 at 17:05
Dennis, it happens when the blog break. See index.php for external links in the footer or somewhere far to the right (if there is scrolling) and change the ftp-password.
March 7, 2009 at 13:27
Yes, like, nothing I have not buggy.
August 31, 2009 at 01:21
There is a very interesting question and answer service There you can quickly obtain quality advice.