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Google Answers resurfaces - in Russia

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Google Answers could be digging its way up out of the grave. Google shut down its Q&A service late last year, but has relaunched a new version in Russia.

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lets you ask a question and receive answers from other users. Users earn points for giving good answers. It's not entirely clear if the points are worth money, or just a sense of satisfaction.

A Google translation of the product announcement indicates reads "We are particularly pleased to announce that Russia -- the world's first country where we are launching this service," which could indicate that Google will roll the service out to other countries in the future. And while we're using Google to translate the site, there's something charming about reading that people are asking questions like "where to buy wall clock with the cuckoos."

[via TechCrunch]

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RIP Google Answers, 2002-2006

Google AnswersGoogle has unexpectedly terminated Google Answers, its question-and-answer site that allowed expert searchers to get paid for answering questions. The service will stop accepting new questions in the coming days, and will stop accepting new answers by the end of the year. In their post to the Official Google Blog, Andrew Fikes and Lexi Baugher, whose very very first project at Goolge was Answers, don't really give an answer for the service's closing, but say that "Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time -- and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product."

Though the pay structure meant that Google Answers' answers were generally very thorough and accurate, it would seem that Yahoo! has found more success with its recently-expanded Yahoo! Answers. If you want to see some of the best answers (and questions) Google Answers produced, I recommend checking out Best of Google Answers.

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