Google Otvety
Answers June 29th, 2007 - By Haochi
Google today launched a new service in Russia called the Google Otvety, don’t know what that means but Google calls it “Knowledge Search“. It’s a community driven question answering website. Unlike the now-defunct Google Answers, this new service is free to all. Russian is the prefer language on that site, I suppose.
From the look of this website, I guess it somewhat clones the Yahoo Answers model where users would answer other users’ question to accumulate points. Then again, I don’t speak Russian, I could be wrong.
You can take the tour of the site here. (Google Translate)
It would be really cool of Google if they do launch a similar service in English and other languages sometime this year. :)
UPDATE: Alex Kosorukoff from 3Form has more on this… “Google encourages users to visit often. It is quite curious that Google’s reward for a visit is higher than for posting an answer. This seems counterintuitive to me and unique among similar services. Points are also assigned based on results of human evaluation.” [read more]
[via Googling Google]
June 29th, 2007 at 7:23 am
Google Otvety is translated as Google Answers
June 29th, 2007 at 7:26 am
And yes… it is absolute twin brother of Yahoo Answers. I suppose they launched it in Russia as there are no more-less working social Question-Answer competitor services in Russia.
June 29th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
Ovety (spelled ????? in russian) means Questions according to the google translator. It can mean com, questions or Council depending on its context.
July 4th, 2007 at 6:22 am
The most of people is takin’ fake score there! (??????? ?? ??????????? ??????? ???????? ?????, ??????? ????????? ??????????? ??? ???????? ????????:))
November 5th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Well good for Russia. Not to be mean or anything, but I wish Google would launch this in the US soon; I’ve been yearning for a Google Answers service as an alternative to Yahoo! Answers (I despise Yahoo! right now because of their horribly obtrusive Mail ads).