Google Tests Submitting Question Directly In Search Results (seroundtable.com)

An anonymous reader shares a report: Manashjyoti Athparia posted in the Gulshan Kumar Forums a screenshot of Google's search results with a big box letting the searcher submit a question to be answered later by humans. The box comes up within the mobile search results and says "get the answer that you're looking for added to the web." Then it says "your question will be shared anonymously with online publishers who may be interested in answering it." The box then lets you either type your question or use a microphone to speak your question. You can then submit the question.

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The answer will be to use Google

[Anonymous Coward]

That will be the answer to all questions.

Re:The answer will be to use Google

[nospam007]

"That will be the answer to all questions."

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Congratulations

[DNS-and-BIND]

Well, it looks as if they are re-inventing Google Answers, one of Google's best services from the early 2000s before Google went evil. It was discontinued, of course. Getting answers to questions from subject matter experts was great. The only thing missing here is payment. With Google Answers, you could offer more money to get a better, more detailed answer.

Re:Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

yo I was a google answers guy back when
the money was shit, it was more of a pass time
google sent me a blanket for christmas one year
wonder if I still have it

Re:Congratulations

[Anonymous Coward]

from the early 2000s before Google went evil

Google was always evil, it just took some people longer to figure that out than others...

Search spam?

[JaredOfEuropa]

Sounds like a great tool for those clickbaity websites that pretend they have info on a topic I'm searching for by worming their way into my Google search results. Now they can - perhaps for a few pieces of silver to Google - target me directly. No thanks.

Re:Search spam?

[Anonymous Coward]

Opportunity knocks.

Remember ExpertSexChange? Neither do I, Stack Overflow decimated it almost instantly. Look out for socratic-spam sites and copy the good shit, scrape away the ugly and make a good site and become an internet god

Re:Search spam?

[Anonymous Coward]

perhaps for a few pieces of silver to Google

Shekels

Re:Search spam?

[Richard Dick Head]

ExpertSexChange started charging for access, and pretty much died overnight. At the time the stuff on it was better quality, but free is better than waiting a week for a purchase req to go through to get a simple answer

More like fake news/info authority/censorship

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't expect any truth in your human answered results

First question submitted

[Nidi62]

And of course, the first question that will be submitted when the service goes live is "how is babby formed?"

Quora:

[140Mandak262Jamuna]

Quora, When google is going to get into your game?

You better ask siri

Siri, when will google start pulling a quora?

I am your google assistant, you are a dimwit asking for siri in an android phone.

and Quora

[Comboman]

and Quora and Stack Exchange and (if you're desperate) Yahoo Answers. Seems like Google now wants a piece of the market they abandoned now that others have figured out a way to make it work.

Hopefully real answers

[Anonymous Coward]

And not the fake stuff like some of the early answer websites whose answers were written by Joe Average sitting at home in their pajamas who hardly knows anything about the topic at hand, copying answers off of Geoshitties and subsequently editing and "improving" them by said person, usually adding more errors and inaccuracies.

Credentials please, reputation matters.