Google Answers Crashes Out

Even though few of Google's services beyond search have caught on with the public like its omnipresent search engine, the company rarely kills off those projects; that made the announcement that Google Answers would be shutdown mildly surprising.


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The pay-for-answers model probably doomed the project, especially since so many questions can be answered through a free Google search. Or Yahoo search, or Ask search, or even MSN/Live search. Google Answers needed a greater number of participants, but for-pay always has a tough time competing with free.

It appears that people like more free forums to seek answers, and google meet its first failure.

I think this day is very important for the internet giant, as this is the first time they decide to shut down a site.

Bellow is a link to the official article from google team :
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html

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funny we talked about this service here a few weeks ago...I think they forgot to promote this service too...

seems like the service has been around for over 4 years already! I think the big mistake was making the people pay to ask a question. Maybe the shutting down of the service is to promote it... Since this is one of the first projects Google is shutting down, everyone will be blogging about it and next week everyone will know about Google Answers. I can see a re-launch of the service where the answer-crew is paid by ad revenue instead of by the question askers...

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seems like the service has been around for over 4 years already! I think the big mistake was making the people pay to ask a question. Maybe the shutting down of the service is to promote it... Since this is one of the first projects Google is shutting down, everyone will be blogging about it and next week everyone will know about Google Answers. I can see a re-launch of the service where the answer-crew is paid by ad revenue instead of by the question askers...

That's a very interesting idea, and I think it could also be a viable concept.

Who knows, after all time will show us what will happen

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I can see a re-launch of the service where the answer-crew is paid by ad revenue instead of by the question askers...

this is an interesting way to pay someone!

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