The company hopes to address historical quality problems with a matching algorithm.
It’s amazing to me that it took Yahoo so long to update its Answers property. Once a thriving Q&A network and social search site, Yahoo really let Answers go to seed. However the company announced yesterday that it was rolling out a new user-experience including mobile optimization
Against what could be considered great odds, Yahoo Answers has reached a pretty stunning milestone: 300 million questions have been asked since the service launched in 2005. But despite that figure, activity on Yahoo Answers is on the decline
Yahoo’s product teams are officially on notice. Shortly after announcing Q1 earnings yesterday, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson dropped a bomb during the analysts’ call when he said the company will be “shutting down or transitioning roughly 50 properties that don’t contribute… Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.
Answers.com have created an infographic for their blog illustrating the current fad for Q&A sites. Below are some of the answers they found on the current industry leading Q&A sites: Answers.com , Ask.com , Facebook Questions , Yahoo Answers and, of course, “the love it or you hate it” site of the moment, Quora . Click to read the rest of this post..
Yahoo Answers, the number one Answers/Q&A search engine on the web, has announced a series of improvements to the search experience on the site.
Yesterday the Wall Street Journal ran an article in conjunction with Quora’s public beta launch.