One of Yahoo’s most successful product launches in recent years has been Yahoo Answers, which is showing more than 50 percent year-over-year growth in pageviews, according to comScore. Yahoo keeps pushing the crowd-sourcing property, which lets 95 million registered members around the world answer each others questions.
Now Yahoo Answers is going mobile, with results from the service to be included in Yahoo’s mobile search, known as oneSearch. My guess is that this is just the start and Yahoo Answers will add more mobile features over time, such as the ability to ask and answer questions on the go, in addition to looking up previous answers. Wikipedia results will also be included in the upgraded oneSearch.
(The Yahoo Search blog follows up with details).
Great news, I love using it. Hope they have an optimized version for the iPhone.
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when are these people going to work with ATT. I cannot access many of the yahoo including its messenger client on a ATT connection
I agree, I would like to see a clean iPhone version. Just integrating it into the onesearch results is pretty lame so far.
WikiAnswers, an Answers.com property, also reported a 50% increase in traffic – http://ir.answe...eleaseID=263490, and has 1836 community-grown topics and 293,070 free members working on 807,022 questions. Earlier this summer Comscore ranked Answers.com’s WikiAnswers second only to Yahoo Answers – see http://ir.answe...eleaseID=251027) A big factor in the quality of the answers on WikiAnswers is the involvement of the 100+ moderators/subject matter experts who are committed to being what Answers.com calls “Supervisors” on the site.
I think this is great! I usually think of questions to lookup on Yahoo! Answers when I’m *not* at my desk. I’m looking forward to it going live.
I called this one back in July in my comment (#8) on Josh Cantone’s post on How to fix Yahoo over at Read/WriteWeb.
http://www.read...oo_platform.php
i don’t see much of a difference between the kind of topics discussed at Yahoo answers and MyLot..Both discuss all that is crap…
Alison, nice promo for Answers.com
You guys have done well with Faqfarm by converting it into a very solid asset for Answers.com, as without it, you lacked proprietary content.
When faqfarm sold to you guys (what, late last year?) it was smaller than FunAdvice is today…$2 million dollars certainly helps to speed growth. I think the money was well spent.
Now, if anybody reading this wants to buy FunAdvice, I’ll even give you a small discount over the Faqfarm sell price to Answers.com
I find it funny that projects like this, which rely on the input from the public, use the no-follow tag on answers.
I find it funny that there are small niches trying to operate (and shill, #10 and #6) in a space that Yahoo! is clearly dominating, and will dominate moving forward.
With Yahoo answers taking the big portion of the pie, what is left for the likes of all topic questions and answers sites? ie sites, like answerbag.com , funadvice.com and of course WikiAnswers.
Over at PayScroll Career QnA, http://www.payscroll.com/qna, we certainly hope to build a niche community around the career community.
google might be kicking themselves for closing google answers
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Most answers are wrong!
I asked what was the best OS, believe me they got it wrong!
Yahoo answers are really not that good.
I am proud of Yahoo!!
@15 – Fake Steve Ballmer: If they said FreeBSD or Mac OS X then they got it right. I just got a PC and before it could boot into vista I installed FreeBSD on it. It is my new to be firewall
Good for Yahoo! For as much as I like Google, I like Yahoo! as well. They have just falling a little behind and have lost some of their sea legs. I hope they come back and offer some good products to compete with Google, Amazon, eBay and the rest.
It’s great to see big ventures going forward on the mobile internet.
Google with its adwords, Yahoo with its answers and next storexperience.com with the local mobile shopping (ok they’re not a big venture yet!).
This will help to find valuable reasons to restart wifi & wimax public access!
baidu answer can also use on mobile,in China,baidu answer is the no.1.it had resolved 21102662 questions.you can visit it at zhidao.baidu.com
Hey Jenny and brfe,
Yahoo! Answers (as a part of oneSearch) is in fact optimized for iPhone
iPhone users,
go to http://m.yahoo.com and search something.
At the search result page, scroll down and chose “Yahoo! Answers” from All Results!
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I would love yahoo answer on my new Nokia 5800..