January 25th, 2006

Community Search with Yedda

There are only a few details emerging about Israel-based Yedda, which will be launching in the next month or so (the current home page is taking email registrations). My understanding is that the service will be somewhat similar to Yahoo Answers, Wondir, Google Answers and Oyogi, with some key differences that the founders hope will result in significantly more user participation, and better… → Read More

December 8th, 2005

Yahoo Answers Launches

Yahoo Answers launched this morning. The service allows any Yahoo user to ask any question and get answers and advice from other Yahoo users. The community picks the “best” answer, and everything is archived for search. There is a product tour available here. A similr service, Wondir, launched earlier this year. Yahoo Answers is taking a different (and more web 2.0) approach than… → Read More