# What is Socratic.org up to? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 1, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-socratic-org-up-to/753597 "2016-05-01T14:37:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-socratic-org-up-to/753597/1 "2016-05-01T14:37:37Z")
[Socratic.org](http://Socratic.org) is a homework help page and, because I’m a sucker for that kind of thing, I contributed 20 answers in one sitting. Then I started to notice that a huge number of the questions could be easily answered via a Google search (alarm bell one). Then, on a hunch, I did Google searches of the first 8 oddly-phrased questions I could find, the kind with “My teacher is a stickler for this” or similar, and every one of them had been asked seven years earlier on either [Answer.com](http://Answer.com) or Yahoo Answer. If I’m not actually helping real, current students, not only am I wasting my time, but there’s something fishy going on. What could they be stockpiling answers for old/fake questions for? ---
**Author:** ![boffking](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/858c86/32.png) [@boffking](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/boffking)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2016, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-socratic-org-up-to/753597/2 "2016-05-01T15:17:38Z")
It’s probably keyword spamming. They know people are searching for those things, so they want to make sure that their site comes up on the searches. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2016, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-socratic-org-up-to/753597/3 "2016-05-02T02:21:07Z")
Thanks, that sounds plausible.