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What is the impact of the newer Stackexchange sites like unix.stackexchange.com, dba.stackexchange.com, & security.stackexchange.com, and a dozen others to ServerFault? Four years ago, SF was the main place on the Trilogy to ask Unix questions, many kinds of Database Administration questions, and IT Security questions. Today, we have SF AND these SE sites. As those sites gain traffic and quality questions, isn't it expected that SF will lose at least an equal amount of traffic & quality questions?
Google doesn't just index sites, they actively follow a gajillion feeds like Twitter, NYTimes, blogs, etc other places to catalog new, public content as quickly as possible. It's publicly known that Google will license (presumably public) feeds from major providers for large sums of money, and this is a significant source of revenue for some providers. Gathering new information quickly is key to Google keeping on top of trends and providing relevant advertisements. They could just be following The SE RSS feeds.
What is a conceptual question? I think most of my questions are conceptual--- if I understood the concept I wouldn't be asking the question and I would be able to solve my problem.
I have actually considered a Raspberry Pis being used for several settings in the data-center: a PXE server, a Terminal server, SSH gateway, on the crash cart, etc. However, most questions for the Pi will be in the hobbyist-sense.
