Google Baraza

Google Baraza
URL	http://www.google.com/baraza/, http://otvety.google.ru/
Status	Closing
Archiving status	Upcoming...
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	google-baraza-items
IRC channel	#bonanza (on hackint)

Google Baraza (also known as Google Questions and Answers) was a Q&A service designed to replace Google Answers. It later shut down on June 23, 2014, and left a public archive behind. This archive will be deleted on April 30, 2015.

Site structure

• http://www.google.com/baraza/en/thread?tid=009241deff6deee3
  • http://www.google.com/baraza/en/fhistory?fid=009241deff6deee30004a4ecdc10793e (history for an individual post)
• http://www.google.com/baraza/en/label?lid=6bb539a0d62b5bf7
• http://www.google.com/baraza/en/user?userid=09917256578240167148
• http://www.google.com/baraza/en/labelusers?lid=2ba73dfbe84c4940

• the following pages can be (ab)used for discovery:
  • http://www.google.com/baraza/en/topics DONE
  • http://www.google.com/baraza/en/labels DONE
  • http://www.google.com/baraza/en/users DONE
  • individual user and label pages can be used for discovering threads, individual thread pages can also be used for discovering users TODO (likely as a warrior project)

• unique content is located at google.com/baraza/en/, google.com/baraza/fr/, and otvety.google.ru/otvety/
  • all sites have the same structure

Archive Status

It got thrown into ArchiveBot (job ident 6p1on8xhw243qqku1x1l3nsyj & 74zrpb2bapc0o4h4o7iff9r6u (en), russian and french jobs don't exist).

May need to be a warrior job as SimpleBrain has been getting redirect login messages.