Yahoo Answers turns one today. The company will hold a celebration at its campus in Sunnyvale to celebrate how far they’ve come. In one year, Yahoo Answers has had 60 million users and 160 million answers.
Along with the party, Yahoo is publishing data from a Harris Interactive survey, showing how people are using online Q&A sites like Answers. The survey shows that one in three online adults have used a Q&A site, and of these, half say that information from a Q&A site has influenced a decision they have made.
According to the Harris survey, 55 percent of adults would prefer to have their questions answered from a group of individuals rather than an individual response from a friend or family member. And of course, users indicated that that they’d prefer the answers forum to be free with 81 percent saying that they would look to the Internet for answers if the service was free and 77 percent saying that they would look to the Internet if they knew they would receive instantaneous responses.
For this data, Harris surveyed 2,303 adults between November 27 and 29, which, ironically, is the same day that Google announced that they would close their answers program.
Yahoo Answers is good. Google answers game over.
hey Nat,
your last three posts have been good, factual and to the point…
Well i guess there is a power struggle between Yahoo and Google. Where they keep fighting over the same spheres..
As Web 2.0 is slowly evolving to web 3.0 when it all is about application. I think that google and yahoo will be developed to where electronic market is today.. Wehere Sony,Samsung , Lg and other competitors fight over the same people.
Yahoo answers shows that Yahoo is in the game and they will never stand down a fight and always keeps the engine on fullpower!
http://answers.yahoo.com/best
Here are the Recently-released BEST OF YAHOO ANSWERS for the past Three Years
go go Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo is not that bad just need to keep innovating.
Does anyone else thinks Microsofts version is ALOT better than Googles?
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I use:
Google Search
Yahoo Mail
Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Maps
Yahoo Yellow Pages
Yahoo Finance
Yahoo Photos
Yahoo Chat
Yahoo seems to work fine for my needs.
Natali
What do you think about BitWine?
They seem to offer a Q&A function that can be added to a Blog.
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Yahoo. Congrats!
I Can’t believe they made it this long.
Happy Birthday You Dinosaur.
Its funny how you surf the web and certain things stick in your subconcious. I know of another Answers (LOL) but not Yahoo Answers.
Happy birthday anyway.
I like Yahoo! better now because I’m getting awesome rankings right now!
Always enjoy your posts. I am glad to see Yahoo Answers not only surviving but prospering.
Thanks
Congratulations on reaching your first year.
Happy Birthday Yahoo Answers.
Happy birthday from the guys over at http://funadvice.com
Competition is great!
I think Yahoo Answers is one of the most powerful components of the Yahoo Family. It keeps people coming back.
Their concept along with wondir.com inspired my start up at http://www.askromance.com.
I wonder if there are any plans to generate additional revenue besides text links.
Good Success!
Vondre’
It isn’t a problem to generate 160 mills questions in a year when you populate the largest site on the web with links to this service day in and day out. If this had to be measured in advertising dollars, which it isn’t because yahoo doesn’t pay themselves, they would have gone broke long ago.
I have personally never found the site to be useful.
Doing a good job at replicating an existing concept – here “Knowledge Man” from South Korea’s leading Internet portal Naver (www.naver.com) is not necessary something to celebrate – but at least they did a good job at executing ^_^;
For the original thing (in Korean): http://kin.naver.com/
Launched in October 2002 (3 years before Yahoo Answers), and yes, they have improved on it since then…
60 million [stupid] questions and 160 million [obvious] answers?
“Answers” is the lamest of all Yahoo’s properties. I can’t believe it has survived a year. But I also can’t believe Jerry Springer is still on the air.
Yahoo’s admirable reach into the general public is so deep that Answers was instantly — and continues to be — overrun by people who appear simply unable or unwilling to do a bit of web searching to find information.
It’s full of crap like “What is the best multivitamin?” If you can’t find some existing resources that discuss a subject like that, you should put down your mouse and stick to the Yellow Pages.
I’m not exaggerating. Here are a few from the current list:
“L dont like my lats name to display when lm chatting with someone on line how can l remove my last name?”
“Does anyone know a simple pudding recipe? If so what is it?”
“The kid in the frank advert what would you do?”
“How do i start my own buisness?”
“I want to know everything about scorpion?”
“Who dances better?black people or white?”
Ugh. What a waste of bytes.
“It isn’t a problem to generate 160 mills questions in a year when you populate the largest site on the web with links to this service day in and day out. If this had to be measured in advertising dollars, which it isn’t because yahoo doesn’t pay themselves, they would have gone broke long ago.”
If you think this is true you are naive. Internal Media allocation at Yahoo is very closely measured and extremely competitive since there is a real and measurable opportunity cost. Granted its available to the properties slightly below market rates so Yahoo spends most of its promotional resources on its own properties.
I also find it funny that people pick on Answers as being lowbrow or pedantic or “stupid”.
Its strange that Yahoo is not showing any Ads in Yahoo Answers!
They could get a wealth of click through with so many users.
Another case of not being able to monetize content?
“If you think this is true you are naive. Internal Media allocation at Yahoo is very closely measured and extremely competitive since there is a real and measurable opportunity cost. Granted its available to the properties slightly below market rates so Yahoo spends most of its promotional resources on its own properties.
I also find it funny that people pick on Answers as being lowbrow or pedantic or “stupid”. ”
The added “answers” to current yahoo index on top (and bottom) of organic and paid listings. They didn’t take anything down for that. They built the brand for virtually free and move the traffic to a site that generates zero dollars.
Great “measuarable opportunity cost.”
This is new and interesting? That Yahoo Answers turned 1? Are you serious? Why not write about something interesting and innovative? Must be a slow news MONTH at TC. This site is rubbish now.
I can’t say I have found Yahoo Answers to be particuarly useful. There is a lot of trash on there and some very stupid people. That said if you are prepared to sort out the good from the bad then you can find some good stuff.
Poor Sal’s naivete continues. Steve’s right about Yahoo’s internal media allocation. And Sal’s also wrong about where Answers is placed in the yahoo search index. Definitely not on top, unless the answers content is properly ranked. At the bottom if relevant.
If big companies simply had to direct their existing audience to new properties to make them successful, then I guess startups like flickr, digg, and even google wouldn’t exist – with sites like AOL You’ve Got Pictures, MSNBC.com and Yahoo! crushing these fledgling companies because they were first and had the benefit of either a huge existing audience or were part of a parent that had deep pockets and multiple sources of traffic. Building a sustainable, community property like Y! Answers requires a committed team, a great product, great users, a receptive audience, and a value proposition that resonates. 60 million users clearly are seeing something you’re not.
While it is great to see the success of “answers” Yahoo has yet to find the right mix to get “valuable” questions and users engaged. We are HelpShare (www.helpshare.com) also continue to find the mix. Does it require $ for compensation or is it better to have some valuable points system.
On another front, is it better to have Q&A all in once place or be embedded into blogs, web sites and/or other destinations where the discussion is more focused and therefore more valuable to the end users.
We continue to experiment to answer these questions, but am very happy to see so much press and interest in the general Q&A space.
Thansks Yahoo for investing in the area.
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my acct was closed by yahoo answers today because they said i was an adult posing as a child thats a serious charge, and they better have some proof of it, and i want to see it, but dont have no way of contacting them because u have to sign in with ur user id, and they cancelled mine. so if any body from yahoo answers reads this email me the proof or put my acct back on line. u have done this to lots of ppl and they cant get no response from u, sounds right. the sensership tool should not be used by any monkey at yahoo answers, they are runnong it in the ground. email with ur proof right away.
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I really don’t care about the birthday of Yahoo Answers! I hope there’s going to be a death date soon, You know the day when Yahoo Answers shuts down! LOL. That would be a dream come true. Because the customer care service team is neglectful, stupid and loserish. FUCK YAHOO ANSWERS
Yahoo Answers is an inane service that belies the lack of education and common sense among a large portion, if not the majority, of our population. Frankly, most of the answers make me want stick a molten-hot iron rod through their eye sockets, but hey, that’s just me.