Earnings and ratings at Google answers

Earnings and ratings at Google answers. I. INTRODUCTION    Most research on Internet Internet   Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET Advanced Research Projects Agency Network, established in 1969 with connections between computers at the transactions considers online markets as  forums to facilitate the sale of physical goods Ellison and Fisher  Ellison 2009; Goolsbee and Chevalier 2003. Sometimes the Internet is analyzed an·a·lyze    tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es  1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. as a market for matching workers and firms for an ordinary  real-world employment relationship Kuhn Kuhn, Richard 1900-1967. Austrian chemist. He won a 1938 Nobel Prize for research on carotenoids and vitamins but declined the award by order of the Nazi government. 2004. But certain Web sites can also supplement or even replace in-person employment relationships. This is the approach at Google Answers A crowdsourcing venture from Google that began in 2002 and ended in 2006. Users would post questions and a fee they would be willing to pay for the answer, and Google retained 25% of the amount. Any of several hundred Google Answers Researchers GARs could answer the question. , a web-based service that facilitates paid matches between "answerers" who have answers  or research skills and "askers" who offer payment for  answers to their respective questions. I analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Google, Mountain View, CA, www.google.com The largest search engine on the Web, founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two Stanford University students. In 1996, they developed their "BackRub" search engine, named after its unique page ranking method explained below. Answers service through November 2003, and I find notable trends in answerer behavior: More experienced answerers provide answers with the  characteristics askers most value, receiving higher ratings as a result. Answerer earnings increases in experience, consistent with learning on the job. Answerers who focus on particular question categories provide answers of higher quality but earn lower pay per hour perhaps  reflecting a lack of versatility. Answers provided during the business day receive higher payments per hour a compensating differential Compensating differential is a term used in labor economics to analyze the relation between the wage rate and the unpleasantness, risk, or other undesirable attributes of a particular job. for working when outside options are most attractive, but more experienced  answerers tend to forego these opportunities. II. LITERATURE AND CONTEXT    Google Answers is distinctive in that its entire service and entire  employment relationship occur online. In contrast, most online sales processes anticipate offline functions such as packing and sending  merchandise. In some respects, this online-only environment eases analysis: A researcher may see the answerer's entire service,  letting the researcher fully assess quality. In contrast, an eBay seller's quality generally is unobservable or only partially  observer to a researcher. Nonetheless, Google Answers does not provide all data researchers might seek. For example, although Google Answers receives answerers' resumes and geographic locations as part of the  application process, Google Answers does not share this data with the  general public. Chen, Ho, and Kim 2008 address these constraints CONSTRAINTS - A language for solving constraints using value inference. ["CONSTRAINTS: A Language for Expressing Almost-Hierarchical Descriptions", G.J. Sussman et al, Artif Intell 141:1-39 Aug 1980]. through field experiments that pay Google Answers answerers to address questions posed by the authors, allowing measurement of the effects of  varying prices and gratuities parameters on answerers' responses. Beyond Chen, Ho, and Kim, others have also examined Google Answers. Rafaeli, Raban, and Ravid 2005 present summary statistics of 2002-2004 answers. Regner 2005 finds that social preferences and reputation influence askers' choice to provide optional gratuities to  answerers. Adamic et al. 2008 study answer quality and reputation at the competing though unpaid service Yahoo! Answers Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven website launched by Yahoo! on December 13, 2005 that allows users to ask questions of other users and answer other users' questions. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver's. III. METHODOLOGY AND DATA SET    All data for my analysis comes from the Google Answers Web site,  http://answers.google.com, as it stood in November 2003. I wrote software to extract questions, answer  Find out more on  paydaycashloan247