Yahoo! Answers
Well, it was only a matter of time…
Google has Base. Microsoft has Fremont. Now Yahoo! has Answers.
A new service that launched today, Yahoo! Answers is aimed at allowing Internet users to pose questions on the Web that can be answered by real people. Once answered, users “get to pick the best answer and the whole thread is archived and searchable,” according to Jeremy Zawodny of the Yahoo! Search team.
While it doesn’t appear that there is an obvious short-term monetization play in Answers, it is an opportunity for Yahoo! to compete in the race to try to index all of human knowledge and structure all the world’s data…something that if successful shouldn’t be too hard to monetize…
More thoughts after I play around with it for a while…
December 8th, 2005 at 12:28 pm
[…] jason steinhorn discovered this morning that yahoo answers has launched in beta. in my neverending thirst for knowledge i immediately put it to a test and asked “when is google going to hit $500“. five minutes later principia one answered incorrectly (my e-mail notification contained the answer twice) that this will never occur, proving two investment banks and the desperate hopes of thousands of investors wrong. […]