tevinanderson

First, Thanks for doing this AMA. Also, my condolences to you and your family for your loss.

I have so many questions for someone like you, but I'll just keep it to a few. Thanks in advance for your time.

Do you build your apps yourself as a developer? Or do you have the idea, and have a team build them for you?

Was there ever a "hump" to get over, before getting the massive amount of downloads you now have? If so, how did you get over that hump (viral marketing? paid advertising? "luck"?)?

What's the fastest you've ever gotten your car up to? On the track or otherwise...

That's amazing. But I'm almost certain that Tide probably wasted a fortune on mobile ads and is now rethinking their mobile ad marketing strategy :-p

As a former blackhat SEO, I used to exploit Google's search results for fun. It used to be easy-ish back in the day. A lot of Google's recent algorithm updates have been to combat spammers of low quality content and link farms. What are you doing to stop exploiters from taking top spots in your search results?

You mentioned increasing the size of the index as the area of focus to improve your search results. But bigger/older doesn't necessarily seems better. I tried a search "things to do near me" and got a list of objectively bad results. But this ranked #2: https://sgforums.com/ I'm not sure how a url like that adds value in your index. Shouldn't you be focused on increasing the quality of the index not just the sheer size?

Edit:sorry I was incorrect. This is actually the URL that was served up: sgimpact.com/pages/89233486-things-to-do-near-me-seo. But this URL has a 301 header response. So why isn't your search engine following this directive?