sparx 0 Report post Posted December 9, 2005 (edited) Yahoo has recently launched a BETA version of its Yahoo Answers service. It's designed as a community forum where people are encouraged to ask and answer questions on a wide rangin variety of topics.To encourage greater use of this community, a points system has been put in place. Garnering points leads to increased status within the community and also allows you to ask, answer and rate more questions than the daily limit.Unlike Google Answers, this service is free (for now). And anyone can answer questions whereas only experts employed and paid by Google can do the same.Both Google and Yahoo allow any registered user to post comments.I have noticed that quite a few questions are put up for which extremely easy solutions and answers are present. One need merely look it up in Google or in some online encyclopaedia like Wikipedia.org. That obviously is done by people who are trying to bolster their ratings.In the future, Yahoo are also planning on paying registered users of its Yahoo Publishers Network. I'll post more details on that later. Edited December 9, 2005 by miCRoSCoPiC^eaRthLinG (see edit history) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
