[WEB4LIB] Re: Google Answers questions

[Nancy Sosna Bohm]

And then there's the axiom of "you get what you pay for." Users are likely
to assume that for $20.00 they can save a couple of hours of fruitless
surfing or stack browsing and get a complete, accurate answer. It will be
interesting to see if Google can in fact achieve such results and turn a
profit.

on 5/22/02 9:02 AM, Karen G. Schneider at kgs at bluehighways.com wrote:
... Google has the money to keep playing with this until they get it right
or until they conclude it's a pointless $$-sink.  My questions are how much
this service competes with free online services provided by libraries...
time will tell...