In May, Yahoo! Answers shut down after helping the internet answer its most burning questions since 2005. But now, Quora, which began as a question-and-answer site but expanded to incorporate blogging
Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As TechCrunch reported last month, Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now — a move that ind
Yahoo has quietly launched a native mobile app for Yahoo Answers, one of the web’s largest Q&A sites which attracts over 3.1 million U.S. monthly visitors. The app, which was previously bei
You never know who you'll meet on the internet. Maybe it's the Craigslist killer, or maybe it's the author of a book you need to read for your summer school assignment. For Yahoo! user ♥ Idiot Ameri
There are some 3.7 billion web searches every month for education-related topics. However, ask a student how easy it is to find answers to their burning academic questions, and they'll probably just r
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There sure are a lot of Q&A sites on the Internet, but not all Q&A sites are the same. In the <em>Founder Stories</e
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Let me start with a disclaimer: I am not writing this in my capacity as a university professor or researcher; I don’
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About a week ago, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/23/facebook-questions/">word started getting out</a> that
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Back in October, Yahoo <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2009/10/28/yahoo-mail-and-im-users-update-their-status-800-million-times-a-mon
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Here's a question for you. How many Q&A sites does the Web really need? Already, there is <a href="http://an
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Yahoo Answers is <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2005/12/08/yahoo-answers-launches/">three years old</a> this w
<img alt="" />Part of Yahoo's survival strategy beyond <a href="http://us.ft.com/ftgateway/superpage.ft?news_id=fto092320082100182195&page=1">merging</a> with AOL may be to sell of what they consi
Yahoo Answers turns one today. The company will hold a celebration at its campus in Sunnyvale to celebrate how far they’ve come. In one year, Yahoo Answers has had 60 million users and 160 milli
A company called BitWine launched an interactive search site about three weeks ago. It is much like Ether in that it is a call-an-expert service, except BitWine is integrated with Skype. In fact BitWi
The wildly successful Yahoo! Answers is moving to take its global community of user shared knowledge to the next level with today’s release of an API for outside developers interested in accessi
Yahoo! Answers unveiled a new promotion today called “Ask the Planet,” where celebrities, notables and allegedly interesting people will pose questions that users will answer for a chance