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'{{notability|Web|date=March 2014}} {{Infobox website |name = Google Questions and Answers |url = [http://google.com/baraza/ google.com/baraza/] [http://otvety.google.ru otvety.google.ru] |commercial = Yes |type = [[Knowledge market]]<br>[[Library reference desk|Reference desk]] |language = [[English language|English]] and [[French language|French]] (as Baraza), [[Russian language|Russian]] (as Q&A), [[Arabic]] (as Ejabat Google) |registration = Yes |owner = [[Google]] |author = |launch date = {{start date and age|2007|6|28}} |current status = Closed since June 23, 2014 (read-only), content removed in 2015 }} '''Google Questions and Answers''' ('''Google Otvety''', '''Google Ответы''') was a free [[knowledge market]] offered by [[Google]] that allowed [[user (computing)|users]] to [[collaborative]]ly find good answers, through the web, to their questions (also referred as Google Knowledge Search). It was launched on June 28, 2007 and replaces the fee-based [[Google Answers]] service, discontinued on December 1, 2006. Google had chosen [[Russia]] as the first country to launch this new [[Service (economics)|service]]. This service was developed under the leadership of Edward Y. Chang, the director of research at Google Beijing office from 2006 to 2012. The service was first launched in Russia, and then China (independently mentioned on Baidu WIKI <ref>谷歌问答, http://baike.baidu.com/view/4017820.htm</ref>), Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia, as well as 17 Arab and 40 African nations. Google targeted these nations because these nations did not have sufficient Web sites to be indexed by Google's search engine. The Q&A system is an effective way to collect useful content and then be indexed by the search engine. Technologically, Google service most closely resembles analogous services by [[mail.ru]]<!-- very popular in Russian internet, started before google (2006) ([[jeson bocog]) -->, [[Knowledge iN|Naver]] and [[Yahoo! Answers|Yahoo!]]. It is [[pseudonym]]ous: the [[nicknames]] of the [[authors]] of questions and answers are shown right next to their contributed content. Google uses question [[tag (metadata)|tagging]] to help users find relevant questions. Google also finds high quality answers to similar questions previous asked and return them to the user to improve answer timeliness. Furthermore, this service integrates search and converts a dissatisfied Web search (indicated by the fact that none of the returned results were clicked) to a question through natural language processing. Technical details are documented in Google's 2010 VLDB paper.<ref>Confucius and Its Intelligent Disciples, Integrating Search with Social, X. Si, E. Y. Chang, Z. Gyongyi, and M. Sun, PVLDB 3(2): 1505-1516 (2010).</ref> As most services of this kind, Google provides an [[incentive]] system to motivate people to answer questions. It is based on assigning points for actions and a system of levels loosely based on the Russian system of academic degrees. An interesting feature of the incentive system is that Google's reward for visiting is higher than for posting an answer. On August 20, 2007, Google and [[Tianya Club]], a Chinese community website, launched a free [[Knowledge market|Q&A]] service entitled "Tianya Answers". The site has since been launched in English and French as '''[[Google Baraza]]''' at a completely different URL. Google closed its questions and answers website again on June 23, 2014 and made it read only. ==Predecessor== [[Google Answers]]' predecessor was also called Google Questions and Answers and was launched in August 2001. The previous service had Google staffers e-mailing responses to questions for free. It was up and functional for about a day. The demand may have overwhelmed their resources.<ref name = "pred">{{cite journal | first = Jessamyn | last =West |date=1 October 2002 | title =Information for sale: my experience with Google Answers | journal =Searcher | url =http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/oct02/west.htm }}</ref><ref name = "knol">{{cite web |date=12 December 2008 | title =Google Answers | work =knol.google.com | url =http://knol.google.com/k/roger-browne/google-answers/1xdiqvw5h03s1/2# | accessdate=2008-05-05 }}</ref> ==Aardvark== Google bought a similar site, [[Aardvark (search engine)|Aardvark]], for $50 million in 2010, but discontinued it in 2011.<ref> {{cite web |url=http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html |title=A fall spring-clean |author=Alan Eustace |date=September 2, 2011 |publisher=Google |accessdate=September 2, 2011}}</ref> Google has closed other sites after integrating their services within their own software. ==See also== * [[Genon.ru]] ==Notes== <references/> ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20080416221259/http://otvety.google.ru/otvety/ Google Questions an]<ref>{{Cite web|url=Dugriyamanu.wapka.mobi|title=Dugriya Boy'z|last=dugriya|first=manu|date=0|website=|access-date=}}{{dead link|date=December 2017|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080416221259/http://otvety.google.ru/otvety/ d Answers] {{ru icon}} * [http://google.com/baraza/ Google Baraza] {{en icon}} {{fr icon}} * [http://googlerussiablog.blogspot.com/2007/06/google.html Announcement about the new service in Google Russia blog] {{ru icon}} {{Google Inc.}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Google Questions And Answers}} [[Category:Discontinued Google services|Questions and Answers]] [[Category:Defunct websites]] [[Category:Google services|Answers]] [[Category:Internet properties established in 2007]] [[Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2014]] [[Category:Internet properties disestablished in 2015]] [[Category:Knowledge markets]]'