http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/11/29/goodbye-google-answers/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:36:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/11/29/goodbye-google-answers/#comment-2106 Mathew Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:48:23 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1939#comment-2106 Rex has a good point, but as I asked him in his comments, if Wikipedia is the reason Google Answers didn't work, then why is Yahoo Answers doing so well? Rex has a good point, but as I asked him in his comments, if Wikipedia is the reason Google Answers didn't work, then why is Yahoo Answers doing so well?

]]> http://www.markevanstech.com/2006/11/29/goodbye-google-answers/#comment-2105 Sean Wed, 29 Nov 2006 15:31:52 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/?p=1939#comment-2105 Interesting that you should post about this, as I was just looking at the Google Labs page yesterday. While I can understand the need to let a company's embedded creativity loose, one has to ask how many resources are being committed to unworthy pet projects. Examples from Google Labs include Google Suggest (interesting, but a somewhat annoying user experience) and Google Sets (some have noted its usefulness for generating keywords, but the quality of a few tests provided marginal results). While I'm at it, you might as well throw in Google Ride Finder, Google Transit and Google Mars. Maybe I'm wrong and this will all come together in one giant "Aha!" moment. So far, all this seems like spaghetti thrown at the wall. Interesting that you should post about this, as I was just looking at the Google Labs page yesterday. While I can understand the need to let a company's embedded creativity loose, one has to ask how many resources are being committed to unworthy pet projects. Examples from Google Labs include Google Suggest (interesting, but a somewhat annoying user experience) and Google Sets (some have noted its usefulness for generating keywords, but the quality of a few tests provided marginal results). While I'm at it, you might as well throw in Google Ride Finder, Google Transit and Google Mars.
Maybe I'm wrong and this will all come together in one giant “Aha!” moment. So far, all this seems like spaghetti thrown at the wall.

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