Wednesday, June 21, 2006

Google Answers Censored?

Here is the question : “What percentage of Google searches are contextual?”

And the Google Official response : “We’ve removed your question because you can find the answer on our main site, free of charge.” More...
Well, in my experience, Google folk look carefully at every question at GA that mentions the word "google". This is easy to prove, because such questions are locked instantly.

Is the info available on their site? Without looking, I would venture to guess no. Do they censor such questions? Yes - see Wikipedia for verification:

Google Answers’ policy prohibits the Researchers from answering questions about the following subjects:

* questions whose answers would promote illegal activities (for example, how to make a bomb)
* copyright infringements and violations
* Breach of privacy (for example, private phone numbers, email addresses, etc.)
* Homework assignments
* Questions about Google Answers itself, or about Google policies and mechanisms (PageRank, for example).

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