Some related posts from Technorati and Google.

Khimming Talks Technology: Microsoft, Google, Yahoo and Apple: Google has decided to end Google Answers. No new question will now be accepted and new answers are only permitted until the end of the year. (via Cosmos)

Build a Better Website - Tips, Techniques and Tools: "Google has canned its Google Answers program, which was the first major search operated question & answer service. Simply enough, Googlers would rather use the Google search engine to find answers to their questions, or turn to social question & answer services which are thriving due to their active member base." Loren Baker (via Cosmos)

Download Squad: In their post to the Official Google Blog, Andrew Fikes and Lexi Baugher, whose very very first project at Goolge was Answers, don't really give an answer for the service's closing, but say that "Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time (via Cosmos)

  Digital Media Wire | connecting people & knowledge: I woke this morning to Danny Sullivan's blog entry regarding the demise of Google Answers which was announced yesterday. In his post Danny alluded to an updated Hitwise chart comparing Yahoo! (via Cosmos)

  AlterSlash ~ the unofficial SlashDot digest: As owner (and frequent abuser) of the Windows/Office monopolies, they realize they have both major advantages and disadvantages relative to Google: they can offer “integrated innovation”, but many business partners and consumers no longer trust them. So the business model they’re trying to get to won’t be the same as Google’s either. (via Cosmos)

Feh! v2: Try to standardize your requests so that you only have 5-6 combinations to choose from when you ask for something, not the 2000 combinations which are possible. By bundling up these options into a known configuration you can make their life easier, and move the conversation/fight from arguing about if the request really needs to have option A on every project to a agreed upon standard that both parties are happy with. (via Cosmos)

  leestone.newsvine.com - Lee Stone: ! (via Cosmos)

[Linkbuildingblog.com] :: Link Building Blog ::: When Your Domain is TR0: A site I have (1999, lots of inbounds, multiple IP's, trusted links etc) Hasn't ranked for its site name now for about a year. I belive it has a what I like to call, 'cant-rank-past-page-3' aka 'cantrankforjack' penalty :D Dya think theres an algorithmic way back from being hit by the Eval team?

 [Charityblog.org.uk] CharityBlog: And as an ex charity finance director myself, some of their blog .Over on OpenCharityBlog (blogs BY charities FOR wider public): Mumbles Matters Online .

 [Open.charityblog.org.uk] OpenCharityBlog: With a partner who loves computers almost as much as he loves me, I have been exposed to the techie bloggers for some time now. At the moment I volunteer for a local (Worcester) community centre, but it wasn’t actually that easy to find voluntary work as I work full time at a university.

 [Muhajabah.com] veiled4allah: A search on Google News turned up two reprints of the Burnley Citizen report .The Lancaster Unite Against Fascism blog also looks for information on what .

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