Originally published January 2 2006
Yahoo Answers to offer question and answer service
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Yahoo Answers will be a free service that will allow people to ask questions and receive answers from other Yahoo users. Users will be able to vote on which answer is the best.
Inc., seeking to increase the amount of user-generated content on its web sites, is offering a service that lets people pose questions and receive answers from other Yahoo users.
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'Yahoo Answers' is designed to provide information that can't easily be found using an Internet search engine, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said.
Users will be able to vote on which answer is the best for each question.
The free service may help Yahoo, the No. 2 Internet search engine behind Google, lure more users and sell more advertising.
Mountain View California-based Google has a competing service in which dedicated researchers answer questions for a fee.
``We're looking to have a way for communities with big groups of passionate people to have a more structured and efficient way to find answers to questions,'' said Director of Engineering at Yahoo Search.
Yahoo's new service highlights the growing trend of consumers posting their own content to the Web through message boards or personal online journals known as Web logs.
One example of that trend is Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia that is written and edited by people around the world.
Yahoo won't post ads on the service at first, although they may come in the future, Shaked said.
The questions and answers will be available for all users to see.
No one has so far offered an answer to the question.
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