What’s Wrong with Copyright?
The Constitution gives Congress authority over copyrights and patents — what we nowadays call intellectual property — with the usual spare language of the founders: The Congress shall have Power…To...
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Portugese speaker required!
The Portugese version of Wikipedia has a tiny stub of an article about Google Answers. Here’s a rough translation: Google Answers is a service offered by Google which allows the users to submit any...
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Tipping behaviour of Google Answers customers
A study by the University of Bristol entitled Why Voluntary Contributions? Google Answers! attempts to analyse and explain the tipping behaviour of customers of Google Answers. Personally I think the...
View ArticleSo long, and thanks for all the fiche
On this last day of Google Answers, I cannot help but be saddened by the demise of what will no doubt go down in Internet history as the greatest collective paid information service of all time. During...
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Another take on Google Answers
Most outsiders who comment on the closure of Google Answers spin it along the lines of “Yahoo Answers has won the battle”. Those of us who were researchers know that this is as bogus as saying that...
View ArticleFestive Meta
Thanks to everyone who helped establish this blog, and who posted entries or comments over the past seven months. The readership continues to slowly but steadily grow. I’ll be away until early January....
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AN OPEN LETTER FROM GOOGLE ANSWERS RESEARCHERS When Google Answers debuted in the spring of 2002, we, the undersigned, enjoyed the unique opportunities of participating as Google Answers Researchers....
View ArticleGoogle Answers is Dead! Long Live Google Answers!
Want to know what one ex-GA Researcher (me, as a matter of fact) thinks of the decline and fall of Google Answers? Read the article in the latest issue of FreePint. If you’re not familiar with...
View ArticleCorporate Secrets
Behind the dismal state of global economics these days, there’s a largely unrecognized culprit at work: the almost universal belief that corporations are entitled to keep secrets. Some secrets are...
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