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- Kestral, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10I guess the first question they answered was: where do I work now?
- poppa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Google was second to Yahoo Answers.
- mattsidesinger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Did they hire the craigslist design team?
- pardonmedoug, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Why do I want to pay to ask questions?
- tsukiyo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6What would be funny would be if they got so successful with this site that Google ends up buying them.
- AbstractEgo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In this day and age, a scenario similar to that is entirely possible.
I for one would enjoy the show. Ha. - eiffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks everyone for your interest in Uclue. This is an "old-school" beta so it's very early days for us.
No we didn't hire the Craigslist design team! We wanted to get something up-and-running as soon as possible after Google retired their service, and have started with a heavily modified version of the AskPert software package from w3matter LLC.
Visual design is being worked on - Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped has produced a clean and elegant design that is serving as our inspiration. First we gotta convert the generated output from tables and font tags into XHTML and CSS though.
Sorry about the site slowness - it's not just digg who's linking to us just now. If you can't get in today, why not take another look in a few days.
As to why Google retired GA, we don't know because (as contractors) we were not privy to any of the behind-the-scenes goings-on. Possibly they couldn't find any software engineers interested in working on a relatively tiny project in a company that's doing so much exciting stuff.
Thrynn asked how to monetise it. That's not actually the hard bit, given that it's a paid answers service. That doesn't mean it will make a lot of money, but it will cover its costs almost from day one given that we are starting small and growing it organically. - LethalAmbition, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2http://uclue.com/?xq=70
Look at the third paragraph - byronm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Is there really that large of a market for paid answers? I mean to ask a lawyer something it costs 275.00/hour even if it takes 2 minutes. What would i ask these people here?
Also, i'm curious why they feel they need to protect their community by only allowing people who participated in a failed venture to participate in this one - isn't that exclusivity the reason it failed?
perhaps they know how much money it made and can live off that but for google it wasn't worth the infrastrcutre or capacity? don't know. Online time will tell.
It would be funny though if Google bought them back. - mhuggins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Except that uclue is down...that won't help them keep their new jobs
- Salmar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It answered my question...
This site has temporarily exceeded its connection limit. Please try again in a few minutes. - Rainbow101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Their site is already down. "This site has temporarily exceeded its connection limit. Please try again in a few minutes."
- gundammman2, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Why did goolge "cancel" their answers program? Why?
- LethalAmbition, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Same here, until I went to http://uclue.com//index.php?xq=56 and click on Home.
Anyways, this site looks good but it looks like a Microsoft Frontpage work. Regardless, all companies start small and humble. I used Google Answers once and was satisfied with my answer, so we'll see how this goes.
Best of luck to them! =) - plagiats, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Google Answers was my favourite Google service (except the search engine). Quality of answers was always remarquable, so I wish a long life to uclue.com
- eiffel, on 12/29/2008, -0/+0I just wanted to revisit this question, because of the skepticism expressed by many commenters.
Indeed Uclue has succeeded and continues to operate, with former Google Answers Researchers providing paid Q&A/research on just about any subject.
The question volume isn't as high as we would like, but the answer quality is high and that's what really counts because it makes it possible for a paid answer service to continue to operate in a sea of free "social answers" sites. - thrynn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1the first question: how do we make money? If Google couldn't monetize it with adsense...what are we going to do differently?
- madcow11, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I went through the hassle of qualifying to be a Google Researcher, but didn't care for the bidding process, so I never actually answered anything. I also didn't like the idea of doing research that professionals (lawyers and the like) would charge thousands for, but only getting $50 for - just not worth the effort. However, about six months later, I received an official Google throw blanket - my cat uses it for her bed - very nice!
- mikeyrock, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2If Google couldn't pull it off I don't see why these guys believe they can do it themselves..
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