Google questions and answers page

Former online knowledge market by Google

Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by Google, active from April 2002 until December 2006.

History

Google Answers' predecessor was Google Questions and Answers, which was launched in June 2001.

00). It was fully functional for about 24 hours, after which it was shut down, possibly due to excessive demand and the tough competition that Yahoo! set in place.^[1]

Google Answers was launched in April 2002.

Google questions and answers page

A month later, a search feature was added.^[2]

Google Answers came out of beta in May 2003. It received more than 100 question postings per day when the service ended in December 2006. According to Danny Sullivan of Searchenginewatch, Google Answers was not solid enough to compete against Yahoo!

Answers.^[3]

In late November 2006, Google reported that it planned to permanently shut down the service (except for the Hong Kong and Arabic versions). No new questions were accep