Tag: ANSWERS

We sometimes like the comfort of getting an answer from a real individual rather than just searching for it in our favorite search engine, and Fluther understands that. Ask a question to Fluther, and they will route it to the appropriate people. With their online service users simply ask a question, that question is sent out to get an answer from people that can help. Not only that, but if you ...

Google has unexpectedly terminated Google Answers, its question-and-answer site that allowed expert searchers to get paid for answering questions. The service will stop accepting new questions in the coming days, and will stop accepting new answers by the end of the year. In their post to the Official Google Blog, Andrew Fikes and Lexi Baugher, whose very very first project at Goolge was Answers, ...

Answers.com, the pretty comprehensive reference site that holds information on close to four million topics, has teamed up with Yahoo! Answers to launch question and answers content. This new service will add human insight into the mix. How will it work? Yahoo! and Answers.com will be sharing its user base and connecting people to the information they are looking for, with the people that can ...

Microsoft has launched Windows Live QnA, an ask-a-question-get-an-answer site in the style of Yahoo! Answers and Google Answers. The site, currently in beta, relies on a reputation system whereby good answers (as determined by the question's original poster) increase your "score." It's got plenty of Web 2.0 trappings, including tags and integration with Windows Live Messenger (in the form of your ...

The popular Yahoo! Answers service gets a new API from the Yahoo Developers Network. From the article posted on YDN (hey devs - where's the RSS feed??), the API lets you access the service to do the following: Search for questions about anything your heart desires. Narrow things down by category. Drill down even tighter, to a single question. Dig out even more questions and answers, once ...

Something new has appeared at Yahoo! Answers. A rating toolbar for each question and for each answer. These provide the ability to quickly click on a "thumbs up/down" to rate each question/answer. There's a button to "report" the question/answer for abuse, another to email the question to a friend and another to add it to your "watch" list, MyWeb, de.licio.us, MyYahoo! or any other RSS reader. ...

According to James Derk in his Scripps Howard syndicated column, Yahoo! Answers is now a disaster. He says it was once useful but now is overrun with spam, chat-happy posters and others who simply disregard the guidelines knowing there will be little to no retribution. I have to agree, sort of. It hasn't become the putrid cesspool the Yahoo! News Message Boards are, but can I see it coming. ...

Buddhabots have begun making appearances on Yahoo! Answers. Buddhabots' artificial intelligence is being demonstrated according to it's creator. "The Buddhabot is the first and only AI to compete with human beings to provide the best answers on Yahoo Answers new social networking site." Ron Ingram is the human behind Buddhabots and according to his blog, "I look for questions randomly and let the ...

The popular Yahoo! Answers service continues to tweak it's offering - mainly in the timing used to trigger events: Questions can be resolved in four hours instead of 24 Open Questions last four days instead of seven Questions can be extended for four days instead of seven Voting can be done for only two days instead of seven The overarching Y! Community Guidelines are also going ...