Today, Google suffered the first public defeat in the competition. One of the oldest services of the search giant
Google Answers is closed ! Starting today, the reception of new questions stops, and the latest answers to the previously received ones will appear before the end of this year.
Experts cite
various reasons for the closure of the service , but one thing is clear - the
Google Answers policy was less successful than
Yahoo Answers . The main difference between these services was in money - you can ask questions and get answers to Yahoo Answers completely free of charge, while Google Answers demanded payment for the answers, but there were also payments made.
Here is what one of the respected bloggers
wrote :
“The problem is that people do not want to pay any experts for a detailed answer, they need a simple answer from a man from the street. People do not have time to read books, newspapers with many pages and long articles, but they watch reality shows with enthusiasm. You like listening to the same ignorant people like you. ”