
Brief History Of Google’s Killing Off Interesting Projects
Google is well-known for kicking off a project and forgetting it. There have tons of such platforms that emerged from the stable of the search engine giant and later killed off. Below are some of the popular those:
Google Answers
In 2006 the search engine giant kicked off with full enthusiasm the Google Answers, something similar to Yahoo Answers then and the current rivals like Quora and Stack Exchange, but the service is now killed even after the effort of offering cash payments to the user whose answers were best. Bounty between $2 and $200 was added to urge people pay out and also add a tip on it.
Before Google Answers came into existence, it had Google Questions and Answers service where a question was mailed to its staff and answers were delivered at the cost of $3. Howe...