March 14th, 2010
I absolutely love GOOGLE-ANSWERS!! More fun and entertainment than WWW
itself in my opinion! Already got terrific response to earlier query
that was very well researched indeed, and a credit to freelance
researcher. However on reading "SEARCHDAY" and other views from
Search Engine experts and writers in the business I find that the
American anti-GOOGLE brigade
is not only predicting a quick death for the concept but obviously
sincerely hoping that it dies as well. WHY!!
They point out a few reasons as follows-:
1) This is a novelty for GOOGLE management that they will soon tire
of and simply shut down overnight; citing minimal income for GOOGLE
relative to the high clerical & technical administrative costs as the
reasons why.
2) Internet users have got well used to the idea of information for
no cost at all on the net' and its way too late to begin charging
people for any such service.
2a)In any case if they do pay they will be expecting information for
next to nothing and at best a charge of $1.75 would be appropriate or
all that most would be prepared to pay. On the contrary however it
appears to me and my calculator that to date questions have averaged
$12.25 each and rising!! This is a long way from the minimum $4.00
allowable and further from the $1.75 suggested by one writer so would
seem to torpedo that argument at this stage of concept's life at least
3)In light of situation at 2) and 2a) and that such a progressive
reduction in price people are prepared to pay will soon become
evident on GOOGLE-ANSWERS, the current researchers will see their
efforts as a lot of hard work & research time for little gain, and
begin to drop off the screen as a result. Consequently researcher
numbers will become unviable for GOOGLE Management to continue with.
One writer said that if GOOGLE was serious they would have sought out
second or third world researchers just as smart as current batch who
would have been able to make decent wages by their country's standards
and been far more keen to continue the daily scan of questions and
respond reliably each day. This sounds like a pertinent comment to me,
yes?? no??
4) People will always prefer to use libraries and in any case
libraries can answer more questions more comprehensivley than
GOOGLE-ANSWERS and people will come to understand this. From my
perspective this would appear a dumb argument as critis are seeing G-A
as only a vehicle for school project type questions only. This is at
odds with all the weird and wonderful questions coming through
that are clearly not the type of abstract type questions that could be
answered in any library thatI know.
Thats enough. Hoping for some good answers and/or comments on Points
1,2,2a, etc from researcher for my $12.25(assuming GOOGLE allows you
to answer) which is a lot of money in my part of the world.
Perhaps you have no qualitative information on subject and cant
answer??
In this case any worthwhile frank opinions would be welcomed.
Also look forward to any commenters comments if anyone interested.
If at all possible and you have some link to GOOGLE management I
would like to know if the 12.25 average is about what they were
expecting as an average question price offered, or something less or
somthing more?? Also were they expecting such strange questions to
come up or the more traditional textbook type stuff or school project
material.
Thanks a lot,
JohnThank you for your questions about Google Answers and your interest
in helping us improve our product.
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