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Google Answers' predecessor was Google Questions and Answers, which was launched in June 2001. This service involved Google staffers answering questions by e-mail for a flat fee (US$3.00). It was fully functional for about 24 hours, after which it was shut down, possibly due to excessive demand and the tough competition that Yahoo! set in place ...
Google AdSense is a program run by Google through which website publishers in the Google Network of content sites serve text, images, video, or interactive media advertisements that are targeted to the site content and audience. These advertisements are administered, sorted, and maintained by Google.
[8] [9] [10] The beta version Yahoo! Answers was launched to the general public on December 8, 2005 [11] [12] and was available until May 14, 2006. Yahoo! Answers was finally made available for general availability on May 15, 2006. [13] Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, Yahoo!'s former Q&A platform which was discontinued in ...
Paul T. Buchheit (born November 7, 1977) is an American computer engineer and entrepreneur who created the email service Gmail.He developed the original prototype of Google AdSense as part of his work on Gmail.
The organizations voiced their concerns about Google's plan to scan the text of all incoming messages for the purposes of ad placement, noting that the scanning of confidential email for inserting third party ad content violates the implicit trust of an email service provider.
Google is credited for popularizing the practice that 20 percent of an employee's time may be used for side projects. [5] At Google, this led to the development of products such as AdSense. [6] [7] While Gmail is frequently described as a 20% project, its creator Paul Buchheit states that it was never one. [8]
Google Answers – online knowledge market that allowed users to post bounties for well-researched answers to their queries. Discontinued on November 28; still accessible (read-only). Writely – web-based word processor. On October 10, Writely was merged into Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Google Deskbar – desktop bar with a built-in mini browser.
Say "goodbye" to one of the internet's favorite dinosaurs. Yahoo announced today that its' social Q&A platform, Yahoo Answers, will shut down on May 4. In addition to the shut down, users will no ...