Google Answers Shut Down
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Google announced that they are shutting down one of their earliest service - Google Answers. Launched in April 2002 with a small 4-person team and went out of Beta in May 2003, Google Answers was one of the very first project Google worked on.Google Answers was just an “great experiment”, as how Google called it. Anyways, Google will stop accepting new question later this week, and will stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year. Questions and Answers will be available to browser online however.
Although Google didn’t say what’s the cause to shutting it down, but here’s probably the answer from Google Answers: What has happened to Answers?(via Google OS) It’s really sad to see Google Answers being shut down. Unlike Google X, Answers has been around for years, even though I don’t use it at all. Bye, Google Answers.
[Via - Googlified]
Google Answers taught us exactly how many tyrannosaurs are in a gallon of gasoline, why flies survive a good microwaving, and why you really shouldn't drink water emitted by your air conditioner. Even closer to home, we learned one afternoon that our building might be on fire.
The people who participated in Google Answers -- more than 800 of them over the years -- are a passionate group committed to helping people find the information they need, and we applaud them for sharing their incredible knowledge with everyone who wrote in.
If you have a chance, we encourage you to browse through the questions posted over the last 4+ years. Although we won't be accepting any new questions, the existing Qs and As are available. We'll stop accepting new Answers to questions by the end of the year.
Google Answers was a great experiment which provided us with a lot of material for developing future products to serve our users. We'll continue to look for new ways to improve the search experience and to connect people to the information they want.
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posted by Seo Space @ 6:11 PM,
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