The Return Of Google Answers Is Upon Us

Google is preparing to launch Google Questions and Answers, or Google Q&A, the successor to the retired Google Answers. While Answers worked by having people ask questions and pay experts for the answer (an interesting idea, but one that never took off), Q&A is more similar to the free community-based Yahoo Answers, according to Ionut, who discovered the plans in Google’s translation console.
Google Q&A is currently available in Russia and China, and we’ve talked about it before, but Google had no indication at the time it was bringing the service to the U.S. and replacing Answers, which it closed one year ago. It remains to be seen if Q&A brings anything new to the table over Yahoo Answers, which is enormously popular. Given Google’s inexperience with building social communities, if Q&A isn’t immediately and obviously innovative, it won’t last half as long as Google Answers did.

Original post by Nathan Weinberg