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March 12, 2011 08:10 pm GMT
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(Founder Stories) Stack Exchange CEO: "Nobody Wants To Find Yahoo Answers In Their Search Results"
There sure are a lot of Q&A sites on the Internet, but not all Q&A sites are the same. In the Founder Stories video above, Stack Exchange CEO Joel Spolsky talks about the origins of Q&A sites and his competition. Stack Exchange operates Stack Overflow and other peer-reviewed knowledge sites. Spolsky minces no words in his contempt for the Big Daddy of Q&A sites, Yahoo Answers. "Yahoo Answers is Teenage chat," says Spolsky. "Nobody wants to find Yahoo Answers in their search results. It is one-sentence gibberish." Stack Overflow, in contrast, goes deep. Stack Overflow users gain reputation by giving the best answers, and answers are peer-reviewed. It doesn't cover every topic under the sun, either, just programming.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/JJIgkbUQ2HQ/
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