Re:Stack Overflow Launches
by baha_man on Monday September 15, 2008 @11:07AM
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'...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* If an answer goes out of date (e.g. it only applies to the beta version) it can be updated.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).
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* If an answer goes out of date (e.g. it only applies to the beta version) it can be updated.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).