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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.
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.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...