Stack Overflow Launches

Re:Stack Overflow Launches by coglethorpe on Monday September 15, 2008 @09:21AM (#304588)

Sure, my search results for answers to programming questions have turned up dubious results from time to time, but usually my answer is on the first page. Occasionally I'll have to refine my query and find the answer on my second attempt. With that in mind, I'm not sure how much better this new site is going to be.

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Re:Stack Overflow Launches by baha_man on Monday September 15, 2008 @11:07AM (#304707)

'...usually my answer is on the first page'

The founders intend that eventually the answer you're looking for will show up as a stackoverflow.com question in the first page of Google results. They get more advertising revenue, the purported benefits to their users are:

* You don't have to pay or even register to use the site (unlike Experts Exchange).

* If an answer goes out of date (e.g. it only applies to the beta version) it can be updated.

* You can always add your own comments (not all blogs allow comments).

* If you manage to solve some tricky problem yourself, you can easily publish the information to help others (not everyone has their own blog).

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Re:Stack Overflow Launches by queensnake on Monday September 15, 2008 @01:13PM (#304829)

Especially if you look in the right usenet group.

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