The End of Google Answers
December 3rd, 2006
Google’s been good to us lately, they gave us the best search, email, spreadsheets, news aggregator; but they closed down Google Answers. I don’t understand why, as it was quite successful and it helps to find your own question that you just typed in the web search, being answered on Google answers. I’ll be honest, Google Answers wasn’t the best looking Q-and-A apparatus, but a little CSS here and there and it would be leading the pack of online Q-n-A services (Mainly, Yahoo and MSN are competitors).
We hope Google will re-incarnate a similar service! 
[tags]Google, Answers, Google Answers, Web 2.0, Internet, FAQ[/tags]
As an update to Google’s closing of Google Answers – former GA researchers have put together a video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4E5btrmqyA which humorously compares Google Answers to Yahoo! Answers, as well as a letter to Google at http://www.petitiononline.com/ganswers/. Please carry this story to show the community’s response to Google’s actions.
There is also a site up at http://www.savegoogleanswers.com/
I thought you might be interested in the Google Answers/Yahoo Answers comparison post on the Compete.com blog today. It puts some numbers behind the arguments. Here is the link… http://blog.compete.com/2006/12/05/google-answers-yahoo-answers/