Google Answers, we hardly knew ye

Seriously, we never used it. And now it’s gone. Apparently the fee-based search service was pretty popular, so why did it tank? Could it be another company actually beat Google at something? Writes Playfuls.com: “Compared to Yahoo’s similar, free service Google Answers is totally pwnd. ‘At present, Yahoo Answers is over 50 times the market share [in visits] of the new Live QnA and 24 times of Google Answers,’ noted Bill Tancer, general manager of global research at Hitwise, on his company’s blog.”