Spotlighting Google Answers Questions and Researchers

Google operated the Google Answers service for four-and-a-half years, and during that time regularly highlighted questions and researchers deserving of a moment in the spotlight.

Here, for posterity, are the questions which were awarded “Question of the week/month/quarter”:

“Safety of Helicopter/Plane Tour of Grand Canyon”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=17078

“Trade Magazines in Western Europe” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=23032

“13 Companies That I Need Information About”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=24483

“People Who Don’t Wear Jeans” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=24342

“Lightning”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=17949

“Pay rates for Google Answers research”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=39618

Explanation of a Poem”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=37056

“Constitution vs Articles of Confederation”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=42909

TV Show: The Greatest American Hero”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=46571

“Harrison Ford testimony”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=51758

“Seeing Life from the Other Side”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=55256

“Camus and Quotation”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=57509

“After Dinner Toasts” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=59874

“Educator in jail setting needs information to pass on to those who qualify” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=62135

“Spatial Geometry, Physics, Mathematics” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=64420

“MMR vaccine and Autism” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=65889

“Men’s Typical Outfits in Ireland” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=68856

“Town Listed in Germany” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=71324

“Jason Project” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=70891

“Login Names (Like Pinkfreud)” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=80023

Economic Systems” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=88337

“Gravitational Forces”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=69228

“Animals that Communicate the Location of Food to Other Animals”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=105532

“Faces of Americans”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=100475

“How to Use This Site, and Get Answers?”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=114187

“Christmas Trees”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=124842

“New Years Traditions in United States” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=135163

“Algorithm for Optimization of Sheet Metal Cutting” http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=141254

Translate German to English”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=149391

Making a Living”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=162793

“Cause, the Chemistry, and the Consequences of the Halifax Explosion” http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=173543

“Parents Away From 3-yr Old For a Week – How Should We Handle It?”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=179109

“Russian Emigrees in Paris, 1920-1939” http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=211927

Sewing Projects”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=224426

“Greenland Pool”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=232657

Drowning in a reorganization dilemma”
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=250747

“Helen Keller”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=259064

“Science”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=265489

“Captain Cook 18th Century Medals”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=283384

“Lego”
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=288734

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Here are the researchers who cheap car insurance quotes were awarded “Researcher of the week/month/quarter”:

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larre-ga
robertskelton-ga
knowledge_seeker-ga
webadept-ga

huntsman-ga
fugitive-ga
bethc-ga
thx1138-ga
rhansenne-ga
pinkfreud-ga
tehuti-ga
searchbot-ga
grimace-ga
eiffel-ga
politicalguru-ga
secret901 -ga
easterangel-ga
juggler-ga
bobbie7-ga
clouseau-ga
websearcher-ga
rbnn-ga
journalist-ga
tutuzdad-ga
calebu2-ga
kevinmd-ga
justaskscott-ga
czh-ga
leli-ga
serenata-ga
arcadesdude-ga
scriptor-ga
hummer-ga
markj-ga
jem-ga
ephraim-ga
boquinha-ga
byrd-ga
livioflores-ga
denco-ga

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