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[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (2 children)

At this point, it seems like google is just a platform to message a google employee to go google it for you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is that employee named Jeeves?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

...Always had been

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Does anybody remember "Cha-Cha?" This was literally their model. Person asks a question via text message (this was like 2008), college student Googles the answer, follows a link, copies and pastes the answer, college student gets paid like 20¢.

Source: I was one of those college students. I never even got paid enough to get a payout before they went under.