Why are you being shutdown Google Answers?
November 29th - 2 Responses


R.I.P. Google Answers

Guess we won’t get an answer to that one! Har har har har har har. Google yesterday announced that their first Labs project, Answers, is being axed. Google will stop accepting new questions by the end of this week, with answers being accepted until the end of the year. An interesting note is that over the past 4 years, the participating users numbers less than 1000, a shockingly low amount for a Google product.

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  1. Richard Ball
    8:38 pm CET on November 29th, 2006

    I think they simply conceded this area to Yahoo. While Google is shutting their answers product down, Yahoo has begun integrating theirs into search results. Hmmm.

  2. Nerds
    10:21 pm CET on November 29th, 2006

    It seems to be one of the few areas that Yahoo is seeing success where Google is not. I agree, Google appears to be giving this one to Yahoo.