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Re:Ask HN: Should Yahoo have not followed Google, and grow t... by fairpx on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:06AM (#14579567)
I've been wondering about 'scale' too, but is that really the problem? Sure, we hear 'that isn't scalable' constantly in startup world. But if you look at Google's gazillion links, users hardly ever get past page 1. Most of them don't go beyond the 3rd search result. Shouldn't Yahoo have positioned themselves as the anti-Google, human powered search engine?
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Re:Ask HN: Should Yahoo have not followed Google, and grow t... by andreareina on Sunday June 18, 2017 @04:45AM (#14579684)
It's a problem of breadth as much as depth. Finding the people to manually do this for then thousand, a hundred thousand, a million subjects is going to be a big strain.

Another way of looking at it is that it already exists, as Reddit. The subreddits I'm subscribed to typically have a small collection of high-quality links that are germane to whatever the subject matter is. And when the link to what I'm looking for doesn't exist, asking typically gets me the answer in short order.

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