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1. Their business model was too strict. The price should be $2-200 per question. I think if they can allow 1 or even zero (which means free), more people would like to try it. Definitely higher price will caused higher quality answers.
2. Google Answers is not true Web 2.0. Only 250/500 search experts can answer (and lock the question). No opportunity is given to general users and other experts. So there is no real competition. Maybe many general users can provide better answers these experts.

In general, I agree on that the market for paid QA service will take off soon and wish uclue all the best. http://www.buyans.com is doing the same business but with better technology, which can improve both the quality of service and business efficiency.

Askville is not much better – here’s a hint – only the asker should be able to rate your answers. You get people who don’t know what they’re talking about giving Answerers a poor rating.

The only choice I like is ask.metafilter.com.

For the most part, Askpert has a lot less features. From what we’ve seen after running FunAdvice for nearly four years is if you have a single feature (question & answer) you don’t get much repeat traffic.

I fail to see this getting traction

– If google couldn’t make it happen, even as a side project. Its not going to work with the same model or people.

– Google’s side project is like a small business’s year long project.

Lots of people cry about Yahoo Answers’ low quality of answers. The question is can you improve the quality by charging people $$ with models like UClue OR by picking a niche audience like AnswerU – http://answeru.com?

(disclaimer: I am one of the founders of AnswerU)

Yes I know I know, everybody seems to think everything should be free, especially if it’s on the internet. But take a group of assorted intellingent and erudite individuals, who happen to be exceptionally good at not only finding, but writing down information — and tell me again why you think they don’t deserve to be paid for their time.

That’s a load of garbage. The answers at Google Answers were of the highest quality and represented in many cases hours of work and carefully crafted information of a quality you simply cannot find on a free service. Nobody is going to do that much work for nothing unless perhaps they are independently wealthy and don’t need to work to pay their bills. Not too many of those kind around I’m afraid.

Next best scenario is to pay a fraction of what you’d pay a private consultant to get a well-researched, properly cited, well-written answer to your question. That was Google Answers — and will be uclue.

Oh – and uclue never aske any questions at TechCrunch forums – that was some other joker who was trying to round up ex-GA people for his other service.

Everybody needs some expert research assistance now and then, and would be willing to pay to get some help. It’s like needing a plumber or a tax specialist…you don’t need ‘em every day, but when you do need them, you need them bad.

Even if everyone on the net only needs to use a paid Q&A service once every ten years, that’s still millions of customers each year.

The real trick is getting customers with that particular need hooked up with the service that can provide it. Google Answers had a tough time drawing in a crowd because they never much marketed their service. Yahoo Answers markets like crazy, and has huge traffic.

Give uclue some time, and let’s see what they can come up with.

Mass adoption is going to be very hard to come by.

What if the best possible answer is unsatisfactory to the person asking or what if the answer was exactly what the person needed but said it was unsatisfactory to avoid costs?