Popularity or notability don't imply competence. Sometimes, people think they do, but I think in general people understand the difference, certainly as they get older.

Google Answers, which was closed seven years ago after four years of operation, is similar to this only with video.

Compared to Answers, Helpouts is far more expensive to the consumer, the providers are not certified for quality, and both consumer and provider need to be available for a live video chat. I give it four years.

Meanwhile, I'll use the much better advice I can get on YouTube for free, on my time, and in my underwear.

The summary looks like a collection of vaguely-related sentences.

I thought Google had at least 10 more good years before the corporate culture take over completely.

This story is only two hour old and has already exploded. Snowden has officially become a martyr. Brazil is sounding less and less like a fictional film and more like a scary prophecy.

Chrome was made popular by being promoted on the most popular homepage in the world.

I've seen so many "Fuck you Google" said today I'm beginning to think Google has officially transitioned into being the new Microsoft.

Statistics as always ruin everything.

So usage is declining. But who continues to use Google Reader? Everyone who leads the social web, as evident by this story exploding everywhere. Google retiring Reader got more press than any Google innovation got in years.

Maybe Google should use the statistics of attention and rage rather than usage for deciding this one.

One of their reasons to retire GR is to focus their efforts. No effort has gone into GR for the last few years. Why not just keep it? The cost is nil.

The Arrow weapon system that Israel developed and deployed takes care of larger faster missiles. It's very similar to the Iron Dome, only bigger.

Use turd-eating worms to compost waste right at the source.

So why stop at the toilet? Push those worms up our butts and be done with it.

Wow. That sounds almost too good to be true, but I'll take your word for it, AC.

Apple's PR is doing a great job. Way to spin something into a provocative flamebait. Google didn't say what the title says it did, but timothy just couldn't resist.

Haha. I'm stealing that.

The last two stories timothy posted were assertions of facts based on meaningless statistics (Objective-C Overtakes C++ based on TIOBE Index) and now this. Is it naive incompetence or deliberate provocation of a circlejerk? I'm not sure which is worse.