Google Answers, was like Yahoo Answers, but the biggest different was you had to actually pay to get answers from Google and supposedly the answers came from "experts". But Yahoo Answers has done way better than Google Answers, so Google has shut down Google Answers.
From Forbes.com:
"While Google’s product made questioners pay experts for quality responses, Yahoo! Answers, launched in December 2005, is free. Yahoo!’s product gets 24 times more traffic than Google Answers, according to research firm Hitwise. Yahoo! also integrates answers to user-generated questions into results in its search engine, and has solicited questions from celebrities like Oprah Winfrey and physicist Stephen Hawking."
http://www.forbes.com/markets/2006/11/29/google-answers-yahoo-markets-equity-cx_rr_1129markets05.html
With Google Answers you had to PAY to get answers, but we can ask questions and get answers free here. Would you rather pay for answers from "experts" or get answers from real people?
I think you answered your question in your post.
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