Google dumps Google Answers
p2pnet.net News:- “More than 500 carefully screened Researchers are ready to answer your question for as little as $2.50 – usually within 24 hours,” promises the Google Answers service.
So here’s a question for it —
— Why pay for a Google answer? Why not just Google it?
Good one. And the answer is, there’s been a lack of questions, so Google is winding up the ’service’.
Wiith Google’s search engine, “and a host of other question-answering services on the Web offering many of the same responses absolutely free, Google’s service never really stuck,” says The Los Angeles Times.
“The retreat, announced in a notice posted on Google’s website, represents a rare victory for rival Yahoo Inc., whose free online answer service has grown rapidly since its introduction less than a year ago.”
Google, “rarely admits that its services have failed – it usually keeps them online, even in obscurity,” says the sory, adding:
“Observers chalked up the shuttering of the service as a win for rival Yahoo Inc. Yahoo Answers, which lets users post questions to which anyone can respond, has provided 160 million answers without any money changing hands.”
Also See:
The Los Angeles Times – Google gives up on charging for answers, November 30, 2006
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