Talk:Google Answers

Seeking feedback on Google Groups article

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End of Google Answers

Google Answers will be closing up shop on November 30. There's no published sources yet so I won't add it to the article for now. The researchers have already been notified. DHN 05:22, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

800 users

mrzaius, thanks for that cleanup. i've been thinking about doing it for a while, but never did. the only thing i take issue with is the incorrect assertion that google answers only had 800 users. that number made it's way around the blogs widely back in november/december, but it's based on a misreading of the official google blog:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/11/adieu-to-google-answers.html

if you read the official blog, the 800 number is meant to refer to google employees and researchers who have participated over the years. also, see the san francisco chronicle writeup, which has the correct interpretation:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/11/30/BUGM6MM1RP57.DTL

finally, there were somewhere around 140,000 questions asked on google answers over the years (not accurate enough to include in the article, but it's in the neighborhood), which would have been about 175 questions per user if there had truly been only 800 users.

other than that, thanks for an improvement to the quality of the article.

--barneca (talk) 21:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

petition

per this diff, it seems there were only 420 signatures when it closed down; this one implies 770 signatures were reached on 2/21/07. there is no way to verify a number of signatures on any given date, and also, on reflection, i believe the existence of a petition is not really significant. so i nuked it.

if you recreate, please find a way to make it verifiable. --barneca (talk) 04:32, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

contradiction

this page says that "Google Questions and Answers" was launched in 2001, as a precursor to Google Answers. But the Google Questions and Answers page says that it was launced in 2007, and that Google Answers came first. Which one is true? 198.51.130.254 (talk) 01:16, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Here's an announcement and discussion of the 2001 service: http://www.metafilter.com/9576/ and here's an archive.org page to confirm it (note copyright date): http://web.archive.org/web/20010917030411/http://www.google.com/questionanswer.html Eiffel (talk) 18:50, 22 July 2008 (UTC)

"New Solution" section should probably be deleted

These guys have spammed that same content widely over the internet. It's vaguely related to Google Answers, but doesn't belong here. I won't delete it myself due to a perceived conflict of interest, but maybe someone else will revert it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Eiffel (talk • contribs) 11:45, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Google Questions and Answers

This sentence added on 25 September 2008 makes no sense what so ever:

Its predecessor, Google Questions and Answers failed in August 2001, to be replaced with Google Answers in April 2002, and moved out of Beta in May 2003.

First of all, we are talking about two Google Questions and Answers one was launched in 2001, and the other was launched in June 28, 2007.

Second, this sentence is repeating what is said later:

The service came out of beta in May 2003 and received more than 100 question postings per day when the service ended in December 2006.

I will attempt to correct this....

Inclusionist (talk) 11:02, 11 December 2008 (UTC) hello how are you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.86.123.204 (talk) 15:06, 27 February 2009 (UTC) about 98% —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ebbyspaghetti (talk • contribs) 07:28, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Vietnamese version

Vietnamese version of Google Answers is still running at http://www.google.com.vn/giaidap/ Should it be mentioned in this article?--Lê _{talk-contributions} 16:00, 2 October 2012 (UTC)

the road between Medina and Mecca, 350 km - What is the length in mi? Race length 5000 m, What is the length in yd? - Ruler length 1 ft , What is the length in mm? - -The measure tape length 30 m, What is the length in ft? - The speed of the car 100 mi/hour. How cut the car in km/hour - The height of a tower 30 yd, What is the length in cm? , What is the area in ha? -Total area of farmland 10km2 -The capacity of a water reservoir 2400 gallon, What is the Volume in m3? ,What is the capacity in gallon? -The capacity of truck fuel 18m3 - Convert 45°into Radian and centesimal system? - Convert 385.4831g into Radian and sexayesimal system? - Convert0.004218rad into centesimal and sexayesimal system? - Convert 131° 21ʹ 47ʹinto centesimal and Radian system? - Convert 225.418g into Radian, and sexayesimal system? - The length of the west coast of Saudi Arabia 1700km,and The length of the east coast 550mi, What are the length of the coasts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.184.162.254 (talk) 06:48, 14 May 2013 (UTC)

Edit on February 14 2014

Added a wikilink to "Plagiarism".

TheInformativePanda (talk) 04:26, 14 February 2014 (UTC)

jika ada perompak somalia datang ke indonesia, maka hukum yang di pakai adalah hukum indonesia atau internasional — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.75.58.39 (talk) 12:54, 15 January 2015 (UTC)

Gta download

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Welding

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