Comments on: Google Answers Shuts Down

By: Google Answers to shutdown « Eye of the Storm

Google Answers to shutdown « Eye of the Storm — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 08:19:45 +0000

[...] Link: the blog who told me [...]

By: Google Answers Shuts Down | nicharalambous.com

Google Answers Shuts Down | nicharalambous.com — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:21:04 +0000

[...] Stamatiou agrees with this, he wrote about it in his post about the Google Answers. Only +-800 participants in the site in over 4 years. That just goes to show that when you are [...]

By: Kyle Korleski

Kyle Korleski — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 00:17:31 +0000

Yeah, I figured that Google Answers was a bad implementation of an answers site.

By: Montoya

Montoya — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 23:00:03 +0000

Would this be the first time Google cans a service? If so, it’s history.

By: Just like every other blog. at AberrantAbsurdity

Just like every other blog. at AberrantAbsurdity — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:19:59 +0000

[...] Today must not be a very exciting day in the world of tech. About 8 blogs that I frequently read have posted about the Google blog post about Google Answers shutting down. Some of these include Tech Crunch, Paul Stamatiou’s Blog and Mashable. According to TailRank there are currently 30 blogs blogging about it. Make that 31 if I show up on there. I guess this is big news because it is Google. Personally I hadn’t really ever heard much about Google Answers and I don’t think this is going to hurt them as a company very much. So hopefully something more interesting happens tomorrow. [...]

By: Mario

Mario — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 00:15:57 +0000

Another question comes in my mind, is google terminating a service or does it have an ideia for something completly different and never seen before?

We all know what google is capable of so we have to consider all possible scenarios

By: Richard Ball

Richard Ball — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:57:55 +0000

What’s interesting here is that while Google is canning their answers product, Yahoo is integrating theirs with their search product. This could differentiate Yahoo’s search from Google’s. Right now, there’s not much that separates Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask. They’re all pretty static. By integrating answers, Yahoo’s injecting some humanity into search results and perhaps some freshness, as well. I wonder if they’ll take this social search evolution a step further and begin integrating del.icio.us bookmarked URLs into their search results. They could even use popular bookmarks as an indication of authority in their search ranking algorithms, akin to Google using links via PageRank. Perhaps an algorithmic tweak like that would really differentiate Yahoo’s search product.

By: Don Wilson

Don Wilson — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:50:22 +0000

Yahoo! Answers is definitely a fantastic site. Lots of fun to be had, compared to the horribly ugly Google Answers. Oh well, Google isn’t exactly fond of design outside of gmail.

By: J Evans

J Evans — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 02:37:19 +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: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:01:53 +0000

Haha, yeah that sounds about right now. But can you blame me they worded it “The people who participated in Google Answers” – kinda works both ways…

By: josue salazar

josue salazar — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:53:38 +0000

Dan is correct.

By: dan

dan — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:19:37 +0000

Um, 800 is the number of people who worked on getting the answers, not the number of people who used the service to get answers.

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 21:13:22 +0000

I’m assuming that’s 800 dedicated people that keep coming back.. but still.

By: shorty114

shorty114 — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:20:36 +0000

I could always solve my problems Googling or asking on IRC… Google Answers never appealed to me. 800 people only… wow.