Google just launched prizes.org

Post by untog » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 4:21 AM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #81

ma2rten wrote: post #61

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What would Google gain from such practices? Why not just ask you your facebook/twitter username upfront? Propally only a small percentage of their user base is ever going to use prices.org anyway. I think the story here is that it is done by slide, which still acts like it's an independent company.

What would Google gain? More opt-ins. Maybe more people are willing to opt their friends-list into a service called 'Prizes' with no Google branding than Google itself. Or even if not more people, a different set of people, who incrementally add info that would be harder to get otherwise. The idea this is Slide showing its independence is interesting too, but why no Google/Google+ as even an option? I think one of th…

Post by iam » Tue, Jul 05, 2011, 5:48 AM UTC

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> 7. I'm not yet convinced that there's a huge market for paid responses when the Stack Exchange network and Quora both offer large userbases who give their time to answer questions for free. Perhaps it is this model they are trying to defeat. If an answerer has the opportunity to earn real money for their time, it might be theorized that they would opt for that over the karma systems. It makes sense for a greater br…

This will be interesting to watch as an experiment in intrinsic vs extrinsic motivations. Personally, I think this will become a Mechanical Turk style wasteland full of people charging < $1/hr and churning out dross.

Post by simonk » Wed, Jul 06, 2011, 12:03 AM UTC

incorrigible wrote: post #84

Google didn't launch prizes.org; Slide did.