Re: Interesting opportunity

[Jason Pincin <jpincin@ashtech.net>]

OK.  Now that's kinda cool... but I think we should make a note and not bother for
now unless you see immediate usage.  Where I see that making a lot of sense is
post-go-live, after we impliment all the neeto features we want, I was thinking of
taking a crack at coding a search engine, or improving the one we have by
implimenting the kind of technology ask.com is...

If you can succesfully match a question to a close approximation in a DB and return
all articles that have been designated as relating to your question.... that's a
powerful search... and that list of questions would be very useful in that case.

I'm going off on a tangent... if you have other ideas, clue me in :)

Jason


On Wed, Jun 02, 1999 at 09:19:34AM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> 
> Basically the site is a broker for getting people willing to spend money
> for answers matched up with people willing to make money to answer them.
> That isn't so interesting.  The interesting thing is that they're
> compiling a DB of every Q/A done through the site and making it available
> for free to anyone who asks.
> 
> On Wed, 2 Jun 1999, Jason Pincin wrote:
> 
> > how would you see it working?  Admittedly, I didn't spend much time looking over
> > it, as I'm swamped, but I didn't see an obvious way to make use of 'em.  Let me
> > know your thoughts.
> > 
> > Jason
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, Jun 01, 1999 at 01:51:45PM -0700, Aaron Turner wrote:
> > > 
> > > www.questionexchange.com
> > > 
> > > See "About Us" for what the site is about, and then "Business
> > > Opportunities" to see how we fit in.
> >