Dec
05
Sad news to see Google answers shutdown, keeping Yahoo alone leading the Answers market. Google didn’t gave details about reasons for closing the service but it was certainly not profitable as expected and probably the competition with Yahoo! wasn’t interesting in this field.
Yahoo! is known for its power to manage content website and it’s leading with its portals, but Google is more advertising oriented services, with automated tools, indexing and organizations of the web content worldwide. According to Google blog more than 800 participated in Google answers in the last four years and plus. Anyway, this should be a good news for Yahoo!.
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December 5th, 2006 at 3:00 pm
I am not sure it was the same service they were offering. Google provided a platform for “search expert” to answer noobs questions for money, that’s why their number is limited to 800 or so. Y! OTAH provides a bulletin board like platform for everybody to answer everybody’s question. I liked a lot the decision of google to accept its loss this time. I agree with you that Yahoo is much better in maintaining a content rich website, FM it is better in community based services andthat’s the reason I think google is not working hard on Google talk. This may be a field where Yahoo and MSN can beat Google and capitalize on that for other services like SEARCH!!
MSN offers the same service as Yahoo Answers: QnA http://qna.live.com/