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Lazyweb, a site envisioned by Matt Jones and built by Ben Hammersley, was online from 2002 to 2006 before being shut down due to an overabundance of trackback and comment spam. The site, a progenitor of the web 2.0 movement, was one of the first to harness the wisdom of the crowds - by allowing you to ask a question of the internet audience in hopes that someone out there had the answer or solution, which you were too inexperienced or "lazy" to find for yourself.

Now that social networking has taken root, it's actually rather surprising that it's taken this long to see the return of a Lazyweb-like service - which is what the newly launched Hoosgot is.