Couple years ago there was a site askme.com that was similar to Google
Answers, but site was free. What happened with this site? If it run
out of business what were the reasons?

Hello.

AskMe Corporation shut down the Askme.com site in November 2002 "in
order to focus on selling software to large enterprise customers."  It
was simply a business decision on the part of the company that ran the
site.

AskMe vice president of marketing said, "It just didn't make business
sense for us to continue having the consumer site."

sources:

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER REPORTER
15 October 2002
Free advice to be a thing of the past at AskMe.com
By JOHN COOK
Hosted by askmecorp.com:
http://www.askmecorp.com/seattlepi.asp

"AskMe.Com Gives Way to Enterprise Focus," from askmecorp.com cached
by Google:
http://216.239.57.104/search?q=cache:NljUeFr6RCUJ:www.askmecorp.com/pdf/GigaAskMecomIdeaByte.pdf+&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

"AskMe.com to close advice web site"
Associated Press, Oct. 15, 2002, hosted by SiliconValley.com
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/4289794.htm

For more information about AskMe Corporation's new line of business,
visit their  web site at:
"What does AskMe do?"
http://www.askmecorp.com/homeq/core.asp

For more recent and past news about the company visit:
"AskMe in the Press"
http://www.askmecorp.com/press/default.asp

search strategy:
askme.com, askmecorp.com, press releases

I hope this helps.

Fast answer. Thank you.