why do people post things on here that can be googled much easier?

Question

like "what is the time difference between US and England"..... "what year was fight club released".... "what is Brad Pitts date of birth"

google answers straight away! like instantly.

Answer 1

I tell people do do that tons of times. I bet that they do not listen to me. It makes me sad that people do not want to use google.

Answer 2

Because search engines give thousands of meaningless answers, with the ones that will help you buried in the middle.

For example, 'time zones in america' might produce a lot of science fiction films or local government directives about putting the clocks forward; Celebrities' age or other details will be the subject of debate, so a direct question HERE will attract a hardcore fan who knows which version is most likely to be true.

Also, they will produce the most popular answers first, so if your query is a bit unusual, the stuff you want can be filtered out in favour of more popular material. ARTHUR C. CLARKE has said that using a search engine is like GOING TO NIAGARA FALLS FOR A GLASS OF WATER. (although that was a while ago)

'This' is a bit of an experiment, in response to the popularity of WIKIs. It uses the online community (or those online with Y...) as a kind of 'ORGANIC SEARCH ENGINE'; people who think they have something to contribute will respond to a query, any they can't help with, they'll leave to somebody else.

The points system distorts things a bit; six idiotic or meaningless answers will outscore one that's good enough for 'best'.

If 'best' scored 100, there'd be more incentive to seek out questions carefully, and answer helpfully. Unfortunately, it would still be cheatable; friends would give each other 'best', regardless of the answer. However, that would keep them away from the serious askers, who would get less 'noise' and more serious answerers (who aren't competing for points).

It's also difficult to tell sometimes, whether a question is meant in the obvious way. A human answerer can INTERPRET better than an algorithm (program), so they might provide an answer to a DIFFERENT question...

(like, how long was fight club in production, or when were the rights first acquired)

...that the asker actually meant.

How do you google the time in America, if you don't know that the USA covers three time zones, or that Central-, South-, and half of North- America aren't usually included in the term 'America' ?

Answer 3

I always wondered about that. I guess it is the equivalent of having a friend who knows the answer so you ask them instead of bothering to check it yourself.

On the good side those are very easy questions to get two points for because if you can google fast and type fast you will be the first with a correct answer.

Answer 4

May be b'cas Google gives us just the answer but here you also get vast diversified opinions and sometimes an idea on how well we relate with the thoughts of the world around us.

Answer 5

It's nice to feel a bit closer tom other people and hear their cheeky answers and so on. It's like asking why go to the cinema when you can watch films at home. For the experience.

Answer 6

well first of all it's fun to find out the different responses to a question and two why did u post this question wouldn't it have been easier for you to have googled it?

Answer 7

The social aspect of having your questions answered by live people. Besides, you may get millions of links when you search that way. This way the answers come to you instead of you to them.

Answer 8

Because if they googled they won't get the 2 point that they want so dearly.

Answer 9

If they google their question, I lose 2 points.

Answer 10

From Yahoo! Answers you can get answers from different people. And different people have different points of view and different knowledge and different background.

So you can get unexpected answers, especially subjective ones, from here.