Had a chance to check out the new 'Ask Me' service launched by Amazon - Askville.
Google failed me when I was trying to fing Hindi numeral names from 1-50 for Mishti, which is when I posted a question on Askville. Bingo! In the next 10 mins, I had not one, but two sets of URLS to follow, and pretty accurate at that. The person who answered goes by the name of EddieNygma, and has answered diverse questions ranging from 'opinion on the best in permanent adhesives' to 'finding prints by Brian Andreas' and everything in between. All in all, this person had 35743 quest coins at the last count - one for each question answered...quite sometthing!
So curiousity piqued, I posted a second query about adding a dropdown in an excel sheet - and again within 5 minutes, I had an answer, albeit not a very good one, for it was the standard excel help text that I couldnot comprehend in the first go.
Success of Google search result depends on the accuracy of the query - but when there are humans at the other end interpreting your search queries, it can be pretty awesome!
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hmm askville has slowed down. Posted a question yesterday, and no comments yet:(
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