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What happened to google answers?

Google used to run google answers, why did they shut it down?

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they probably stopped providing the website service. They probably did not see it as a cost effective...

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My website has suddenly gotten a huge wave of hits from Google and Google.es. What happened?

Google Analytics is not being particularly helpful. When I click on the "see the referring link" it gives me a blank Google search page. Duh. WHY is my site suddenly appearing in so many Google searches in Spain (and Portugal) when we're a...

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One time I was running a PPC Adwords campaign, and we noticed a surge in clicks from one particular...

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What happened to clean URLs, Google? Jeez.

Is there a script I can use to work around the google-fied URLs that now show up in searches? Here's the scenario: 1. I'm writing a blog post about Mefi. I can't remember the URL. I go to google, search for metafilter, and there it is! 2. I right click...

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Try installing the CustomizeGoogle firefox extension. It allows you to remove this annoying behavior...

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What happened to the "GAudi", Google Audio Indexing, feature in Google Labs? Is this technology being used to index YouTube videos?

This feature was mentioned in a 2008 Google blog post: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2...

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Haven't seen or herd anything about it on any of the major SEO sites, Google may have abandoned it.

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What happened to Google Realtime Search on July 3, 2011?

HTTP 404 returned from http://www.google.com/realtime since this morning. Does Google+ cause twitter to ban google realtime?

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Google Realtime Search was temporarily shut down because Google's contract with Twitter (product), which...

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What happened to the Google recruiter that Steve Jobs was successful in getting fired?

Does that recruiter have grounds to sue Google for wrongful termination? Follow-up to: Why did Steve Jobs take so much joy in getting a Google recruiter fired? Article: Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs' brutal response after getting a Google...

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Her name is Stephanie Buran. She works at Gilead Sciences as a recruiter today. http://www.linkedin...

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What would have happened if YouTube hadn't sold itself to Google?

1. YouTube has continued to grow monthly users: http://siteanalytics.compete.com.... 2. There are also about 5 or 6 times as many searches including the term "YouTube" now as there were at the acquisition: http://www.google.com/trends?q=y....

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YouTube would have remained an acquisition target if it had remained independent due to increasing storage...

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We had a DNS problem on 14 Nov, after that our impressions on Google dropped. What are good ways to understand what happened?

This is a screenshot taken from webmaster tools. The DNS was a problem only for Google crawlers, but after 3 days everything was on a nice green light. Unfortunately I have no further information about that, just because everything is operating normally...

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It's probably because of your DNS problem. If you give a little more information about this problem...

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What would have happened if Google Wave was made by a startup instead of Google?

They obviously wouldn't shutdown such a product so easily because it must've been really tough for them to create it. What else would differ, from designing and developing the product, to launching it, to it's shutdown/pivot?

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My take is that a startup would have focussed on solving one use case in depth rather than building...

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What happened to Google Gears?

Gears seemed like the holy grail of projects for Google in that it's aim seemed to be to make every web app semi-functional offline.  The thing that will prevent me from ever taking their Chrome OS seriously is that there's (currently) no offline support...

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Google gears was sunset-ed by Google. Engineering efforts were re-directed to HTML5 offline capability...

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