Summary: In 2002, Google launched one of their few pay services, Google Answers. The service attracted only 800 responders in the past 4 years, and was shut down a few weeks ago. Three years ago, Matt Haughey created Ask MetaFilter, pays no money to those who answer questions, and has turned the site into a successful part of his business using, in part, Google AdSense to support the site.Why was Matt successful where Google was not? Let's take a look.
cool i didnt know about cranky geeks, that might be worth a new post by you with an image.-mouser (December 12, 2006, 01:08 AM)
