Astute reader Patrik wrote in about answers.google.com, a new site Google has set up. It currently redirects to the Google homepage, but who knows what will be here eventually. This is typical Google behavior: even images.google.com originally redirected to the Google homepage. On the other hand, random strings like fakeexample.google.com return an error from the browser.
Update: Matt Haughey writes to let us know about Google's old Questions and Answers service (mefi thread) which unfortunately seems to have been taken down with no archives available. (If anyone has an archived copy of these pages, do let me know!) It's definitely possible that this is related.
Posted by Aaron Swartz on April 15, 2002 05:31 PM