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Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The name "Google" is a play on the word "googol," which refers to the number represented by 1 followed by one hundred zeros. Google Desktop is a service that brings the search engine to the local computer desktop, allowing one to search individual files, folders, and emails that reside locally on one's own PC. Google is particularly known for its relaxed corporate culture, reminiscent of the Dot-com boom. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google   (2838 words)

Google - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of many thousand low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux. Google Groups is a service that lets users search the complete archive of Usenet newsgroups, as well as hosting mailing lists and other discussion groups. Google's relaxed corporate culture can also be seen externally through their holiday variations of the Google logo. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Google#April_Fool.27s_Day_jokes   (2838 words)

List of Google services and tools - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Google Base was officially launched in beta on November 16, 2005, but was already alive earlier for brief amounts of time. Google Base enables content owners to give a structure to their information and make it easily searchable online, it can be related in its principle to a simplified Semantic Web, information is described using labels and attributes. Google Labs is akin to a directory page that links to all Google technologies under development or in beta that have not yet been made widely available. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Google_services_and_tools   (5650 words)

Information for Sale: My Experience With Google Answers All Google "handles" are suffixed with the letters -ga. While only researchers can answer questions, anyone with a login may add their comments to a question; the system does not differentiate between the comments of a researcher and those of a non-researcher. Google Answers editors have begun attempting to discourage researchers from offering hasty incomplete answers so that they can get to more questions, but scarcity of questions and competition for them among a larger more anonymous pool of researchers have made that difficult to enforce. The difference between the Google Answers' model and the public/academic library model appears mainly that when a librarian gives a patron a response to their reference query, the patron tends not to argue with her. www.infotoday.com /searcher/oct02/west.htm   (2680 words)

Google Meets eBay: What Academic Librarians Can Learn from Alternative Information Providers Indeed, Craig Silverstein, Google's Director of Technology, indicated that the raison d'être for the search engine was to "seem as smart as a reference librarian," even as he acknowledged that this goal was "hundreds of years away" [3]. She registered with Google Answers as a user, submitted the questions, responded to requests for clarifications, collected the responses, and completed the loop by rating the Google Answers researchers' answers. Answers to such questions will help research libraries justify their value to academic administrators who are responding to the current economic crisis by casting about for programs that can be cut or eliminated. www.dlib.org /dlib/june03/kenney/06kenney.html   (4073 words)

Google Blogoscoped   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Google went forth and created the Star-Wars-compatible motto “Don’t be evil” – a motto which should be rephrased to “Don’t evil be,” Yoda-style – and all of a sudden, all Star Wars geeks think they’re using the light side of the force, and the dark side of the force must be somewhere else. Google sent out a team of 15 people to Olive’s Israeli offices (much of the company is over there) for over a week (staying at an expensive hotel), and interviewed each Olive person several times both in person and by phone interviews. Google on their Co-op homepage calls the people who are supposed to provide content for Co-op search results "contributors." I suppose that's meant to be somewhere between users and developers; nothing casual, but no rocket science either. blog.outer-court.com   (4817 words)

Dummies::Taking a Look at Google Answers This marketplace is Google Answers, or as Google cofounders Sergey Brin and Larry Page put it, an online "Question Economy." In short, as a result of Google's really cool experiment with Google Answers, you can pay to have your questions answered by researchers that are under contract with Google. In the Google Answers universe, an answer that can't be validated is not a very good answer. When you arrive at the Google Answers page, you can browse the questions and answers that are already on the page, but you must obtain a Google Answers account before you can pose your own question. www.dummies.com /WileyCDA/DummiesArticle/id-3095,subcat-USING.html   (594 words)

Googlewhack Esslessness! I suspect that the little bit of Google (whether it's a single array in a sliver of memory or a cluster of 30 machines in an undisclosed location) is not available. Danny Sullivan had reported on Google plans to change to, and their completion of the switch to, Answers.com on 2005-01-27. Of course, Answers provides an array of new definitions ("mcjobs" and "googlewhack" itself are now accepted terms), trademarks (I just saw "gonorrheic walmart" and "ungodlier mcdonalds" go by), and proper names (permitting silly bits like, "schwarzenegger protohuman," or "nimoy turgidness: Spock was unfazed by Nurse Chapel's choice of tunics... www.googlewhack.com /ssss.htm   (1176 words)

- Google Answers to the Rescue Google Answers is a resource that works well for these types of questions. If no one answered the question on Google Answers, I was out a couple of minutes and the fifty-cent posting fee. Google Answers gave me a nice option and allowed me to work on my other items and sleep. www.timeatlas.com /mos/Web_Sites/General/Google_Answers_to_the_Rescue   (1053 words)

Google Community: Google Answers FAQ Google Answers is a way to get that help from Researchers with expertise in online searching. Your question will also be publicly viewable on the Google Answers website so other registered users can add their insights and share the benefit of the research. Yeah it is, only it's narrows the possibility of the answer and you have to pay for google answer. www.googlecommunity.com /about50.html   (577 words)

Google Guide: Answers Google adds on a US$.50 listing fee, which you are charged regardless of whether your question is answered or not. Google's tips for getting a better answer to your question, which can be found on the web at answers.google.com/answers/help.html. After a researcher has answered your question, you are given an opportunity to rate the answer from one star (very poor answer) to five stars (great answer), provide comments that anyone who uses Google Answers can access, and tip the researcher between US$1 and US$100, if you feel that you have received an exceptional answer. www.googleguide.com /answers.html   (1155 words)

Paying for answers online | csmonitor.com Google spokeswoman Eileen Rodriguez says the new service is "targeted to users who have limited skills or limited time to conduct research to find an answer to their question." Google Answers also appears to target people unaware that other Ask-A sites either are free of charge, offer field experts, or both. Other library answer sites such as the Los Angeles Public Library (http://www.247ref.org) are already open to anyone on the web free of charge. www.csmonitor.com /2002/0722/p14s01-wmcn.htm   (972 words)

Google Launches Q&A Service, Answers Directly on Results Pages Answers, if available, are placed in a OneBox at the top of the results list. Make sure to not confuse this with the Google Answers service that allows you to interact with human researchers. In some cases an answer might be listed on the results page and in other cases a link to a specialized database is provided. blog.searchenginewatch.com /blog/050407-125209   (671 words)

FreePint Newsletter 185 - Google Answers and Information Skills And all the cyber-poking around we do leads us to discover a lot of amazing resources available to everyone, but tucked away in odd corners of the web, like the EU patent database that also includes patents from the US and Japan (how cool is that?), and goes back to the 1800's . In addition to his work with Google Answers, he is also President and Chief Executive Janitor of Sarokin Consulting, doing freelance research and consulting on due diligence, company background studies, family histories, legal and regulatory matters, data gathering, prior art, web-based information extraction, and a host of other topics. Workbooks with answers at the back are particularly useful since my students can practice the problems and immediately check their strategy. www.freepint.com /issues/300605.htm#feature   (5008 words)

Techdirt: Google Answers Now, Google is trying to revive the same idea with Google Answers. Google is looking for "researchers" who answer the questions. On the same note, a professional researcher knows the value of his or her time, and at those prices, there would have to be some really high volume to keep a researcher engaged. www.techdirt.com /articles/20020421/123253.shtml   (561 words)

Google Answers Google the leading search engine now offers access to a team of experienced web professionals, for a modest fee. Google has its reputation to protect and therefore the quality of its research team is very high and there advice is pretty reliable. Google answers cores a very wide range of topics from law to the internet. www.discountdomainsuk.com /articles_archived/8/704/1   (229 words)

Cool Tool: Google Answers You post your question on Google Answers and (this is key) the amount of money you are willing to pay someone to answer it. Past questions and their answers are archived on the site so you have a clear idea of the quality of the research and some idea of how best to cast your question. A study by Cornell librarians determined that the answers from Google Answers were about as good on average as they would have provided. www.kk.org /cooltools/archives/000208.php   (417 words)

librarian.net: an anecdote Please note that Google's corporate communications department must review all copy (press articles, web copy, etc.) regarding Google Answers and/or your experience as a Researcher before it is published. Perhaps Google just has its own niche that is fully separate from the public libraries, but I personally feel that we're sunk if people start to treat reference questions and interactions as if they were supplier/consumer interactions. If you are a librarian who has used Google Answers, I'd love to hear from you. www.librarian.net /surreal.shtml   (733 words)

Geek.com Feature: Silicon Samurai--Satellite Dish Woes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) To join we all signed a contract with Google, one which, by the way, has a clause which not only allows Google to alter the agreement at any time, but also puts the onus on the researcher to keep checking to see if any changes have been made. Once it's posted, all researchers see the question, and the first one to hit the "answer" button gets a one hour lock on the question during which they must research the question, write a precisely formatted answer complete with as many references as possible, and explain in detail the search strategy he or she used. There are currently a lot more researchers than good questions, but Google is still encouraging people to post answers in the guise of comments by holding out the hope that if you post a lot of good comments you'll get hired as a researcher. www.geek.com /features/silicon/071702.htm   (1565 words)

Google Selling Answers The fee-based answering service charges a non-refundable $0.50 to ask a question, which then gets passed off to staff researchers who will look up the answer for you from readily available sources on the Web. Google said it has hired a contracted staff in house of more than a dozen people, but is looking for more that do not have to be based in the Silicon Valley. Google said it is way too early to gage how much money it expects to pull in from the venture. www.internetnews.com /ent-news/article.php/7_1013021   (778 words)

Most popular sites according to Google | Google Cartoon | Google Answers Researcher Interview with Missy She was the first to win the Google Answers Researcher of the Week award, and one of the first Researchers to sign up and answer for Google Answers. There are so many excellent answers out on the boards on any given day, that it's really hard to keep track of them all. I knew Anlon and Cerebrate from long before Google Answers — I met them on RASFWRJ [rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan], and both have been to visit me. I was also fortunate enough to meet Aceresearcher when my family and I went to visit Anlon in February! blog.outer-court.com /archive/2003_05_07_index.html   (1451 words)

On Lisa Rein's Radar: Google Answers Experiments Archives I've been thinking a lot lately about how Google Answers could be used for the public good: considering all of its answers are made public and searchable. This means, when one of us pays $10 or $20 to have a question answered, we can all benefit from the results. Answered By: easterangel-ga on 22 Dec 2002 02:47 PST www.onlisareinsradar.com /archives/google_answers_experiments   (1293 words)

Google Adds Answers, Augments Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) Google Q&A has strengths and weaknesses, Norvig admitted. Google will continue to offer the paid Keyhole 2 LT and PRO software products that provide interactive access to a streaming 3D global database of imagery and mapping information. Google is in a three-way feature race with competitors Yahoo (Quote, Chart) and MSN. www.internetnews.com /dev-news/article.php/3496131   (574 words)

R2IClub GA stopped accepting applications immediately after they started with it as they got 500 of their initial quota and after that they never re-opened it for more applications. Google is very very strict in their answers quality and any deviation in it, puts the GAR in their fl list till they bring back the quality. I hope this has given a good start for some of you guys to know what GA is. As RRK said, GAR gets paid for answering but they get paid because every question has a price that is put by the originator of that question. groups.msn.com /R2IClub/liaissues.msnw?action=get_message&ID_Message=74554   (451 words)

Google groups and google answers I started noticing that sometimes while searching newsgroups on google and then clicking on results, I get a message saying that the article is not available and I should try google answers. I'd say that the Google Answers promotion is for if they groups is unavaliable. You may have noticed that Google has been unreliable this weekend if you were using the connection that sees the flags. www.webmasterworld.com /forum3/5413.htm   (179 words)

Google Answers Researcher Interviews Google Answers is a live question/ answer system. There's a listing fee of $0.50, but except for that the money can be completely refunded if you're not satisfied with an answer. GA: Google Answers (every nick in Google, for researchers and other users, has a "-ga" suffix). blog.outer-court.com /interviews.html   (389 words)

[No title] I suspect the key audience for a Google search assistant would be someone who is very busy and is gainfully employed. Google is just copying the business plan of a few such services that ran a few years ago (don't know what became of them), and adding it's own trust factor. google is doing this to increase the page views and usage of its site.. webword.com /weblog/000036.html   (515 words)

SHINYFIRE.COM I was sitting at home one night, and thought it would be fun to type in questions in to google.com's images search and see what answers I would get. Hmm, sometimes I think Google must be on crack. Go ahead ask google some of you own questions and see what wisdom it can share. www.shinyfire.com /feats/google/google.htm   (194 words)

Google Answers Back Or How to Become an Ex-"Google Answers" Researcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) In the October 2002 issue of Searcher Magazine, I wrote an article about Google Answers that was not overly critical, but not fawning either ["Information for Sale: My Experience with Google Answers"]. Of the two other Researchers who had published articles about Google Answers, one had been fired and then re-instated once he agreed to the errors of his ways and because he had "media affiliation[s]." His original article is still available online at http://www.geek.com/features/silicon/071702.htm. As a side note, the Researcher Guidelines, part of the Google Answers contract with Researchers, will be updated shortly on the Answers Web site to include this addition. www.infotoday.com /searcher/jan03/west.shtml   (1364 words)

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