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

Posted by msmash on from the shape-of-things-to-come dept.

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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  1. The answer will be to use Google by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    That will be the answer to all questions.

    1. Re:The answer will be to use Google by nospam007 · · Score: 1

      "That will be the answer to all questions."

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  2. Search spam? by JaredOfEuropa · · Score: 2

    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.

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    1. Re:Search spam? by Richard+Dick+Head · · Score: 1

      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

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  3. First question submitted by Nidi62 · · Score: 1

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

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  4. Quora: by 140Mandak262Jamuna · · Score: 1
    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.

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  5. and Quora by Comboman · · Score: 1

    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.

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