Google Answers closes shop

Just saw on the Google blog that Google Answers is no more. Predating crowdsourcing products from Yahoo, Microsoft, and Amazon, Google went the more elitist route of building a team of experts — 800 of them over the last four years. Ah well, guess it’s back to algorithms at the ‘Plex.

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