Comments on: Google Answers Closes Shop (Extended Version)

By: Amazon launches Askville, Yahoo Answers Competitor - GigaOM

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[...] offering is Yahoo. It would be interesting to see if Amazon will succeed where others including Google have failed. AOL recently acquired Yedda, an Israeli start-up in order to start giving [...]

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Thu, 31 May 2007 02:29:25 +0000

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By: YashLabs » Blog Archive » Web Analytics Wednesdays

YashLabs » Blog Archive » Web Analytics Wednesdays — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:11:59 +0000

[...] Malo spoke about Yahoo Answers and Google Answers. The latter has been since closed, and I talked about LinkedIn Answers which seemed to work well. [...]

By: Network-Centric Advocacy

Network-Centric Advocacy — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:48:45 +0000

Need to Google Answer? Go to Mediavolunteer…

To all those researchers that are itching to continue contributing and enjoy looking up things and providing answers. We still NEED you. Go nuts for the progressive movement http://truemajority.mediavolunteer.org Link: Seth’s Blog. Even though Google …

By: wuyasea operator

wuyasea operator — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:36:34 +0000

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By: scott

scott — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 19:07:30 +0000

What about Amazon.com's askville.com? Sure its in beta, but I think it should have gotten an honorable mention.

By: INFORMANT

INFORMANT — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:07:05 +0000

It is not gone. Google Answers is going be repackaged for the Enterprise customers.

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:50:37 +0000

Although it's a bit like comparing apples and oranges, the chart is striking. What I find interesting is that Yahoo has begun integrating their answers product into their search results. So, how will this move impact the Google vs Yahoo search engine wars? Will it compel more people to use Yahoo's search product? The whole social media space is, obviously, quite popular right now, but I'm not sure how well that translates into search. I'd be more interested in seeing del.icio.us results integrated into search.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:44:20 +0000

Yahoo! Answers sucks. Plain and simple. I think it's where America's Meth-Addicted go when they're on an Internet bend. Have you seen the juvenile and idiotic Q&A that Yahoo! hopes is content. It's a great example of the shortcomings of UGC.

By: J Evans

J Evans — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:36:25 +0000

In response to Google's announcement that they are shutting down the Google Answers service, researchers have banded together to petition Google to keep GA alive. Please sign.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ganswers/ Keep Google Answers Alive

To: Google

The Google Answers service has helped many people during its four and a half years of existence, and it continues to do so. Researchers and unpaid commenters formed a community which should not be discarded lightly. Many repeat users were able to easily find answers to difficult questions thanks to the service. Furthermore, Google Answers proved that a living could be made working on the Internet alone, as many researchers worked on the site as their sole source of income.

We, the undersigned, believe that Google should continue to provide this valuable community service to the Internet.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

By: Liz Gannes

Liz Gannes — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:44:45 +0000

Eli and Steve, maybe you two should talk! It's interesting to see such divergent negative feedback.

By: Steve M.

Steve M. — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:32:19 +0000

Yes; wide-ranging info quality or not, Yahoo Answers is a clear breakout success…but, because the press isn’t currently “big” on Yahoo (or Microsoft, for that matter), we'll never see the kind of positive on- and off-line headlines and attention that media darling Google receives with their successful (or new) offerings…or much attention either to (let’s call it what it is, shall we) this Google failure.

Unbalanced reporting via-a-vis Yahoo/Microsoft/Google?

This is just one more example.

By: Eli Arrington

Eli Arrington — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:45:56 +0000

I don't like the comparison between google-answers and hate the hitwise-graph which shows that "Yahoo’s relative dominance is striking".

Those are two different products: at yahoo, you get answers from normal people that answers according to their knowledge. At google-answers, someone (smart) sits and makes a (difficult) research for you, on a subject that (almost) nobody knows about. After spending time, s/he gives you credible information you can count on.