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Official Google Blog: Adieu to Google Answers

Well, looks like Google Answers will make the trip to the unknown. Google Anwers, was a project intended to be a place where people could ask questions about anything and everything, and other users would reply back. Users could even have questiosn with rewards, where the person posting the question has a sum of money on the question and if he/she is satisfied with the answer a person gives, the money can be redeemed by the user who answered.  The questiosn were well categorised and I really expected the service to grow at least on the technical front as lot of people, especially open source users have had troubled times with some configuration or a piece of code that just didn’t work. Looks like the response on this one was poor and Google has decided to shut down the service pretty soon.