Comments on: KGB.com – no irony

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:42:14 +0000

Lols I just noticed (a year later) this thread about working for KGB. 10cents per question answered.

According to one person on that thread, 70% of the questions were porn / relationship based. Lols.

Ugh. A world of idiots texting questions to work-at-homers who serve up the fastest piece of Google ‘truth’ they can lay their hands on. Ah, the sweet smell of human progress.

All of which sordidness makes KGB’s claims to be at the vanguard of some new paradigm of knowledge (or something).. rather nauseating.

By: Sam Deeks

Sam Deeks — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:45:17 +0000

Thanks for the answers, Anon. I now understand the Text service you offer:

“The premise is basically paying somebody else to look up small facts for you, when you cannot.”

I still can’t see how you’ve “re-imagined the way you find, create and share information on the web”. All I’ve found is smaller and smaller bits of information and more and more advertising.

I gave up looking.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 21:19:44 +0000

kgb_ is a company based largely on the work of independent contractors who provide answers to questions that their askers don’t have the immediate time or resources to find. (Say, they’re out of the house, and don’t have access to the internet.) They text kgb_ with a question, for a $0.50 charge, and get it answered accurately in a short period of time.

The KGB of the Soviet Union were the security force dating back to the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, before they were even known as the ‘Committee of State Security’.

The KGB of the Soviet Union controlled information because it controlled most other aspects of the country, often by force.

kgb_ may not get to be as big or pervasive as google, but they do offer an innovative service that provides a more personalized human touch to answering questions than google does.

The premise is basically paying somebody else to look up small facts for you, when you cannot.