It's old news already. If you haven't read it on regular news than probably on userfriendly. That's where i found out about it.
Today ended the very last week where one could pose a question to google answers. Questions asked last week will be tried to be handled until Christmas, than we will be left alone with all the undecided and mysterious Problems we are confronted with in daily and not so daily life. There may be some other portals on the web for finding answers to silly or important questions.
But what good is a world in which you have to leave the sacred premises of google web-services just to get some answer you do not really need anyway?
Generally there may be two ways of reactions: The first would sound something like: Oh it was just some beta and an experiment anyway. Is it not only natural that some experiments fail? The second type may frolic about the mere possibility of google to fail in at least one of its various resorts, no matter how small it may be. These anarchists may even see some first but tiny cracks in the walls of this cyberfactory.
Well, it will most probably not kill google and with a bit of luck it may still be around by next christmas. But what if some new web 3.0 startup emerges and changes everything on the net again?
There might have been a chance for getting an answer to that if only google answers still existed.