Many interesting questions about Australia were asked and answered at the now-defunct Google Answers service, and are still being asked at Uclue. Questions about Australia from Uclue Research on the NGO sector – Australia What they do, what they buy, how they are organized Australian sport information Attendances, prices, broadcasting, fitness… Australian reporter “embedded” with [more...]
Google Answers was a Question and Answer service operated by Google Inc. Customers could post a question and select a price. If a Google Answers Researcher could provide the answer, the researcher was paid 75% of the question price. History During August 2001, Google briefly provided a service called Google Questions and Answers where a Google employee would [more...]
Quezi has already featured a long list of unanswerable questions, but some people want more so here you go: What is the speed of dark? If fire fighters fight fires and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight? Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same? Will iceberg lettuce survive global [more...]
These are the unanswerable questions of life. Why is the third hand on a watch called the second hand? What is a “free gift”? Aren’t all gifts free? If nothing sticks to teflon, then how do they make teflon stick to the pan? Why do psychics sometimes cancel meetings due to unforeseen circumstances? How do [more...]
Google Answers was a paid answers service operated by Google from 2002 to 2006. Customers could post a question, select a price, and wait to see whether a researcher could provide them with an answer. If not, they were not charged. Google recruited over five hundred researchers from around the world, by means of a [more...]
Google Answers, the now-defunct Q&A service operated by Google from 2002 to 2006, attracted its share of eccentrics and has the questions to show for it. One Luke Smith proposed to his sweetheart by posting a question asking whether she would marry him. I fear the two-star rating means that the response was “no”. Some [more...]