goodbye google answers
Google stops accepting questions over at Google Answers. They’ll stop accepting answers by the end of the year. Ten to one they roll out some freebie service a la Yahoo Answers or Askville within the next six months (I have heard through the rumor mill that it may be much sooner than that). Interesting discussion over on MetaFilter about it which briefly compares and contrasts some of the Ask services with library services. I was also interviewed for a short article about Google Answers today on ArsTechnica. It’s a weird sort of power law that if your site comes up high on a Google Search for a topic, and you’re contactable, you wind up talking to more reporters about it.
November 29th, 2006 at 11:34
[...] goodbye google answers [...]
November 29th, 2006 at 1:39
I doubt they’ll roll out their own free service. I think they’re more likely to either buy a company that does this right or simply concede this area to Yahoo. They’re more focused on core search and expanding their advertising empire, particulary related to video.
November 29th, 2006 at 8:06
[...] Today I saw that the very first product of Google Labs (launched back before “beta” was in Vogue) - Google Answers - is finally shutting down. This stands in stark contrast to Yahoo Answers, which launched just months ago and has enjoyed pretty impressive growth and adoption. It’s not really fair to compare them side by side since they’re significantly different products, but I will do so anyway. [...]