Yahoo Wants Your Unanswered Questions
To be honest, I do not use Yahoo as much as I should be (besides email). I like to make fun of Google and their actions at [often] times, but when it comes down to search Google is my first choice (Yahoo is in the respectful 2nd place).
Yahoo has a post written today about their Yahoo! Answers feature and how to use it.
We want to give anyone a place to tap the collective wisdom of the Internet for advice, recommendations, theories, jokes, … whatever. Anyone can answer. It’s free. And once your question is answered, you get to pick the best answer and the whole thread is archived and searchable. So in addition to getting answers, you’re helping to add to the “the Internet’s” collective knowledge.
In general it sounds like a fancy forum which has all topics covered. You can go, ask a question, people will then attempt to answer your question, and the best answer is kept and archived. Does the world need another forum that’ll produce thousands of these pages a month? Probably not. I can, however, see a use for these answers implementer in the result pages so when people are looking for them, they can find them. That is, when I have a question, I run a search, if the answers satisfy me, I’m good, otherwise I’ll post the question in a forum and look for an answer. So in other words, unless these answers do not show up for a related search term there is no point in even storing them.
For example, Can I deduct clothing cost on my tax return? has no mention within the first 100 results, so what is Joe going to do now? Right, post the question again in his favorite forum , which may make Yahoo! Answers worthless, or just another cheap forum.
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