At least in its current form, this application has nothing to do with search and barely anything to do with questions and answers. The video is grandiose, but the actual app has little to do with the video.
At the moment, there's no way to revisit past questions, search for questions, etc. You can only swipe through questions and answers one at a time, in the order the application presents them to you.
This application is just a structured version of Twitter or Vine or Instagram, where you have to take a picture (which makes the content more interesting to browse) and other people are encouraged to respond and interact with you because the message is presented as a question.
Right now, the use case is that you are bored or lonely, so you "ask" a "question" to your friends about whatever sort of dog or lamp or restaurant or funny-shaped cloud you happen to be near at the moment. Your bored or lonely friends who are also using the app at the time respond in a general social way, not necessarily with good answers. Everyone feels good about it, and no one had to actually impose on anyone else.
It's reasonably good at this. This app provides structured social interaction, not really question-and-answer or search or access to vast untapped reserves of human knowledge.
Although presumably the app will eventually have more of those features, the focus on these features in the initial release leads me to guess that the creators understand what they've built. It may or may not be successful, but I think if it is it will be in the Twitter/Vine/Instagram/Reddit/Facebook bored/lonely space, not Google/Stack Overflow/Quora/Yelp actual-answers-and-knowledge space.
At the moment, there's no way to revisit past questions, search for questions, etc. You can only swipe through questions and answers one at a time, in the order the application presents them to you.
This application is just a structured version of Twitter or Vine or Instagram, where you have to take a picture (which makes the content more interesting to browse) and other people are encouraged to respond and interact with you because the message is presented as a question.
Right now, the use case is that you are bored or lonely, so you "ask" a "question" to your friends about whatever sort of dog or lamp or restaurant or funny-shaped cloud you happen to be near at the moment. Your bored or lonely friends who are also using the app at the time respond in a general social way, not necessarily with good answers. Everyone feels good about it, and no one had to actually impose on anyone else.
It's reasonably good at this. This app provides structured social interaction, not really question-and-answer or search or access to vast untapped reserves of human knowledge.
Although presumably the app will eventually have more of those features, the focus on these features in the initial release leads me to guess that the creators understand what they've built. It may or may not be successful, but I think if it is it will be in the Twitter/Vine/Instagram/Reddit/Facebook bored/lonely space, not Google/Stack Overflow/Quora/Yelp actual-answers-and-knowledge space.