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''''Google Questions and Answers''' is a free [[knowledge market]] offered by [[Google]] that allows users to collaboratively find answers to their questions (also referred as Google Knowledge Search). It was launched in 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. Technologically, Google service most closely resembles analogous services by [[Knowledge iN|Naver]] and [[Yahoo Answers|Yahoo!]]. It is pseudonymous: 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. 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]], a Chinese community website, launched a free Q&A service entitled "Tianya Answers". ==Predecessor== Google Answers predecessor was also called Google Questions and Answers, which was launched in August 2001. The previous service had Google staffers e-mailing responses to questions for a flat $3 fee. 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 | year = 2002| month =October 1 | 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 | year =2008 | month =December 12 | title =Google Answers | work =knol.google.com | url =http://knol.google.com/k/roger-browne/google-answers/1xdiqvw5h03s1/2# | accessdate=2008-05-05 }} </ref> ==Notes== <references/> ==See also== * [[Genon.ru]] ==External links== * [http://otvety.google.ru/otvety/ Google Questions and Answers (Russian site)] * [http://wenda.tianya.cn/wenda/ Google Questions and Answers (Chinese Tianya site)] * [http://googlerussiablog.blogspot.com/2007/06/google.html Announcement about the new service in Google Russia blog (in Russian)] * [http://3form.org/blog?p=34 Google Answers is reborn in Russia, a blog post providing more details about the service in English] * [http://googlified.com/2007google-otvety/ Google Otvety from Googlified] [[Category:Google services|Answers]] [[Category:Knowledge markets]] [[Category:Internet properties established in 2007]] [[ru:Google Вопросы и ответы]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Google Questions And Answers}}'