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Re:It's a good thing..
It is a good thing they didn't try to calculate the amount of power used...
An informed estimate of the power consumption of the internet was 868 billion kWh per year in 2007.
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We had to develop a policy for homework questionsWe regularly get homework questions asked (for payment) at uclue.com. Most of the researchers don't like to answer homework questions, so we developed the following policy:
"We are delighted to assist customers with their homework. We can provide information, explanations, links and resources. We do not provide homework answers in finished form, such as essays or answers to tests."
Additionally, we have a clarification process so that we can discuss the homework with the customer and help to educate them. If we were to provide raw answers we would feel very
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Re:Here we go again
Fifty of the former Google Answers Researchers now operate Uclue, which is a paid Q&A/Research service that operates much as Google Answers used to.
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Re:Either you pay the editors, or it's crap
Remember Google Answers? Nobody really cared, and Google shut it down.
Sure, lots of people cared.
Several dozen former Google Answers Researchers started up Uclue, where we're carrying on in the Google Answers tradition of paid Q&A/research. -
Re:But isn't AI and metadata just around the corne
The people who want to "just ask the librarian" can use online equivalents such as Uclue paid Q&A/research, Ask Metafilter, Wikipedia Reference Desk etc.
Paid search is always going to be a niche business, because most people don't want to pay, and because it doesn't scale as well as algorithmic search. But for those who want to use paid search (such as Uclue), it's a valuable service. -
The paid answers model
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example. -
The paid answers model
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example. -
The paid answers model
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example. -
The paid answers model
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example. -
The paid answers model
... to gain credibility for their QA section, they need to introduce paid overseers
The paid answers model is a quite different model to the "worth what you pay for it" free answers model. Not only do you get better answers, but you often get more interesting, better-phrased questions.
Take a look at these examples from paid Q&A site uclue.com, for example. -
NearlyFreeSpeech.net
The summary mentions NearlyFreeSpeech.net which we use to host paid research/Q&A site http://uclue.com/
What we like about them is that we pay for what we use. No more, no less. Why is this concept so rare in the industry, which seems to be built around "pay for promises, get what the arbitrary fair usage policy gives you"?
The downside of NearlyFreeSpeech.net is that they don't offer https due to some ideological problem with IP Addresses. The upside is that, apart from that, they make money by enabling you to do more, not by restricting you from doing so much. -
Re:How big a fraction?
The best estimate I've seen recently is reported here: http://uclue.com/index.php?xq=724
(Doesn't include energy for manufacture or decommission; just operation.)
Result: Roughly 10% of total energy consumption is due to computation. -
Re:Yahoo makes money off these people.
If you pay the "Answer people", then you generally also need to charge the "Question people".
That's the model we use at paid Q&A site http://uclue.com/
The downside is: we're not in a position to take on more "Answer people" until we get a higher volume of paid questions.