Google Answers is dead--Barry?

[Alison Murie]

>
>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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Was this an allusion to the New Yorker (?) cartoon in which the host,
ushering   out the guest carrying a book, says: "The butler did it.  Do you
still want to borrow it?"  ?
AM

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