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Friday, December 09, 2005

Yahoo! Answers: people-powered search


"Yahoo! Answers is a place where people ask each other questions on any topic, and get answers by sharing facts, opinions, and personal experiences."

It's got all the usual Web 2.0 goodness in it: user-generated content, sharing information, a points system that rewards participation, user ratings, RSS feeds, etc. But as Mike Arrington from TechCrunch pointed out, it doesn't have tagging (choosing to use formal categories instead).

Currently Yahoo Answers has 23 top-level categories and answers will be promoted on Yahoo Web Results pages. Advertising may be added in future and people who answer questions may get paid in due course. Yahoo! has also closely integrated this with existing products, with 'Save to My Web' and 'Add to My Yahoo!' buttons.

Yahoo! Answers is a big step up from what Google offers. Google Answers is fee-based and only "qualified" Google researchers answer questions - it is generally a lot more formalized (less democratic?) than Yahoo! Answers

Resource: ZdNet

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