Meryl's Notes Blog

Looked closely at Google Answers for the first time today. It’s a decent system and quickly gained my trust. Oh, I didn’t post any questions, but I studied the FAQ and the posted questions with their answers.

In Question 1 in the FAQ: “What is Google Answers?” states:

“Your question will also be published on the Google Answers website so registered users can add their insights and share in the benefit of the research.”

Cool. For some reason, I pictured that the question and answer would be private. This is when I take a look around and there were some quirky questions, but the Google Experts answered them like professionals. Here’s an example, “Name five famous people who are (or were) known for sleeping only four hours per day.”

Quick, what is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “Google?”

2-1, you said, “searches” or some derivation of that.

What’s missing from Google Answers? Ba-da-bing! Searches! You can’t search Google Answers. I fired an email asking if I missed something because there was no mention of it anywhere that I could see. They promptly replied:

“Thank you for your question. We currently do not support this functionality, however it is possible that we wil have this tool in the future. Thank you for you interest. Your feedback has been noted and will be taken into consideration.”