Google Answers is dead--Barry?

[Fred Shapiro]

On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Sam Clements wrote:

> No more will Barry have to worry that the wrong info about word origins =
> is getting out into the world.  Long live Barry.

Good riddance to Google Answers.  I once offered a $200 reward there for
pre-1938 citation of "the butler did it."  Someone came up with
information from a web site _which clearly was presenting it as a joke_
and Google Answers told me I should pay the person.

Fred Shapiro


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