Google Answers is an online knowledge market offered by Google from 2002 to 2006. This allows users to send bounty for well-researched answers to their queries. The answers received by the requester cost $ 2 to $ 200. Google retains 25% of research rewards and costs 50 cents per question. In addition to the researcher's expense, a satisfied client can also tip up to $ 100. at the end of December 2006, although the archive remains available.
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Histori
The predecessor of Google Answers is Google's Questions and Answers, launched in August 2001. This service involves Google staff who answer questions via email at a flat fee (US $ 3.00). It's fully functional for about 24 hours, after it's closed, possibly due to excessive demand and fierce competition that Yahoo! set in place.
Google Answers was launched in April 2002 and quit the beta in May 2003. It received more than 100 posting questions per day when the service ended in December 2006.
Google opens related sites, one in Russia also called Google Questions and Answers and one in China named Tianya Answers, referring to its Chinese partner site. In September 2009, Google launched an Arabic version called Google Egabat or Google Ejabat (?????? Google), which means Google Answers . However, at the end of May 2014, the service was announced for read-only from June 23, 2014.
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Process
This site is designed as an extension for conventional searches - rather than doing a search on its own, users will pay others to search. Anyone can ask questions, offer prices for answers, and researchers, called Google Answers Researchers or GAR, answer it. The researcher is not a Google employee, but the contractor required to complete the application process must be approved to answer for the site. The numbers are limited (according to Google, there are over 500 Researchers; in practice, there are fewer Active Researchers). The application process tests their research and communication skills.
Low ranking researchers can be fired, policies that encourage fluency and accuracy. In addition, Google states that those who comment may be selected to be Researchers, therefore inspiring high quality comments. In practice, however, virtually no new Researchers are employed since the initial process in 2002. For Researchers, a question is answered by going to a special researcher's page and then "locking" the question they want to answer. This "locking" action claims a question for the researcher. Questions worth less than $ 100 can be locked up to four hours, and questions worth more than $ 100 can be locked up to eight hours at a time to be answered correctly. Researchers can only lock one question at a time.
Question structure
- Client inquiries, which the Researcher may respond to with clarification requests if any part of the question is unclear.
- The answer remains empty if the question has not been answered and only the Researcher can post an answer. Each Researcher can answer any question, although the questioner can specifically ask a particular Researcher in the title or body of their question. After the answer is installed, the client can communicate with the Researcher to request clarification of the answer; the client can also assess answers on one to five star systems and tip the Researcher for a job well done.
- The comments section provides an area where each registered user, Researcher, and not Researcher, can comment on that question. Some questions are "answered" in comments before the Researcher can answer. Typically, this section can also be left blank, if no comments are posted.
Limitations
Google policy prohibits answering questions that will obviously lead to or contain:
- Copyright infringement and privacy violation.
- Plagiarism in homework.
- Google Answers discussion itself, or about Google's policies and mechanisms (PageRank, for example).
- Links to adult-oriented sites.
- Promotion of illegal activity.
Criticism
Some librarians criticize Google Answers as a service sales service that is part of the public librarian's duties (in the United States). The most vocal of these critics is former Google Answers researcher Jessamyn West, whose contract was terminated after she violated the terms of the site's service by publishing an article about her experience as a Google Answers Researcher. Other reference librarians claim that the service does not harm the library, but only operates in parallel with them.
Other critics claim that this service encourages plagiarism. The official Google Answer policy is to remove questions that appear to be schoolwork. However, some journalists expressed concern that it is sometimes difficult to distinguish between "legitimate" questions and homework assignments, especially in terms of science and programming.
Unconventional use
Despite its professionalism, Google Answers has also developed its own unique cyberculture. One popular question is "What is the meaning of life?" Another question is the joke request or "fact" Chuck Norris. One popular non-conventional practice is to ask unreasonable questions, offering bounties in the $ 2-5 range.
Since the comments section is open to every registered user, sometimes abused by spammers, try to promote the PageRank of a site by mentioning their site. However, most of this content was deleted by the Google Answers team. The site is also full of trolls that will use carefully crafted messages to trigger flamewars or make political statements.
Closure service
On December 1, 2006, Google officially ended Google Answers. No new questions were received after 30 November 2006 and no new answer received after 31 December 2006. All questions asked and answered previously are still available for anyone to view. Danny Sullivan, editor-in-chief of Search Engine Watch, suggested that "killing the service may be a smarter move than letting it languish online." In an email sent to registered researchers announcing the closure, Google wrote:
We considered many factors in reaching this difficult decision, and ultimately decided that the size of the Answer community is limited and other product considerations make it more effective for us to focus our efforts on other ways to help our users find information.
Some other free and paid knowledge markets have appeared in place, including Yahoo! Answers, Quora, Mahalo Answers, Stack Exchange Networks, and Uclue (owned and operated by former Google Answers Researcher), are more similar to Google Answers than most other sites.
The service was relaunched as being free with the Russian name Questions and Answers in Russian in 2007, eventually evolving into another language as Google Baraza.
See also
- Answerbag
- Askalo
- GirlsAskGuys
- JustAnswer
- Hunch (web site)
- Quora
- Yahoo! Answer
Note
External links
- Google reply
- dmoz reference page for google answers like website
- "365 Days of Google Answers" Calendar with information from answers in the service for each day of the year.
- Google Guide - Google Answers
- David Sarokin, "An Insider's View of Google Answers"
- Jessamyn West. "Sale Information: My Experiences with Google Answers", Searcher , Vol. 10, No. 9. October 2002, taken on 21 November 2006.
- Jessamyn West. "Google Responds Or How To Be A Researcher" Google Answer "Ex", Finder , Vol. 11, No. 1. January 2003, taken on 21 November 2006.
Google Answers academic research
- Benjamin Edelman from Harvard University checks Income and Ranking in Google Answers (pdf)
- D. Bainbridge, S. J. Cunningham, J. S. Downie, "How People Describe Their Music Information Needs: Analysis of Grounded Theory of Music Questions" (pdf)
- S.J. Cunningham, D. Bainbridge, M. Masoodian, "How people describe their image information needs: analysis of theories based on art questions" Digital Library, 2004. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of ACM/IEEE 2004, June 2004
- Tobias Regner, "Why Google Let's Volunteer Contribution" CMPO Working Paper Series No. 05/115, bris.ac.uk
- Anne R. Kenney, Nancy Y. McGovern, Ida T. Martinez, Lance J. Heidig, "Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from an Alternative Information Provider" D-Lib Magazine, June 2003, Volume 9 No. 6 , dlib.org
- Sheizaf Rafaeli, Daphne R. Raban, Gilad Ravid "Social and Economic Incentives in Google Answers", jellis.net (pdf)
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