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Re: Google Baraza

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Post by yati »

joelrunyon wrote: post #18
diggan wrote: post #5

"What is Google Baraza?" "I am a member of the Google Baraza team. One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the informat…

Are any of these Africa-specific pieces? Just a few of the questions I picked off: > What is the meaning of stonehenge? > What is public enlightenment? > Is politics vicious? Are these answers necessarily local to Africa?

Why, you think Africans won't be interested in answers to those?

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by davidw »

[deleted] wrote: post #2

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Who are "foreigners" for you? That's a bad term on internet forums because people from all over the world use sites like HN, making "foreigners" somewhat meaningless/confusing.

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by wodenokoto »

OrwellianChild wrote: post #11

This looks like an attempt to mimic the Quora or StackOverflow format of Q&A, but the structure isn't there. There doesn't seem to be much organizational structure beyond the top-level "Government" or "Computer Software" categories. It appears to have been around since 2010 or so - there are some users that have been contributing for a while (e.g. ivan - http://www.google.com/baraza/en/user?clk=tpct&userid=0708787...…

Gathering question answer pairs for training their answering algorithm in google search.

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by patrickaljord »

joelrunyon wrote: post #18
diggan wrote: post #5

"What is Google Baraza?" "I am a member of the Google Baraza team. One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the informat…

Are any of these Africa-specific pieces? Just a few of the questions I picked off: > What is the meaning of stonehenge? > What is public enlightenment? > Is politics vicious? Are these answers necessarily local to Africa?

> What is the meaning of stonehenge?

That's probably a joke http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbyzgeee2mg

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by joelrunyon »

yati wrote: post #21
joelrunyon wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are any of these Africa-specific pieces? Just a few of the questions I picked off: > What is the meaning of stonehenge? > What is public enlightenment? > Is politics vicious? Are these answers necessarily local to Africa?

Why, you think Africans won't be interested in answers to those?

I'm just saying - what's the purpose of having a "local" african answer to this? Will the answer to that question by impacted by the geography of the people searching? Probably not.

There are plenty of good use cases for having a localized search answer for Africa - but many of the questions that I saw after a quick preview didn't seem to make great case studies for that purpose.

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by shadowmint »

RivieraKid wrote: post #19
diggan wrote: post #5

"What is Google Baraza?" "I am a member of the Google Baraza team. One of Google’s goals in Africa is to make the internet more locally relevant and bring more people online. One of the challenges of the internet in Africa is that there is a lack of local content online. At Google, we find that users search for information about local businesses, entertainment, health, etc but often don’t find it because the informat…

Why should Africans use this instead of existing Q/A sites like Quora?

Perhaps the french version? http://www.google.com/baraza/fr/

Re: Google Baraza

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Post by srikrishnan »

selectnull wrote: post #20

How come Google releases new software that is not using https, and still I'm logged in with my account. I'm surprised google can still make that mistake, making my account vulerable after going to so much trouble of protecting it with 2factor auth.

Well, I see the same news (on Google Baraza) has been doing rounds on HN since 2010 :D. So its definitely not new software.
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