At Search Engine Watch, Gary Price provides a good overview of Yahoo Answers, a “new social networking/online community/search/question answering service” that “allows any registered Yahoo user to ask just about any question and hopefully get an answer from another member of the question answering community.”
As Michael Bazeley notes, Yahoo Answers is “not to be confused with Google Answers, which allows people to ask a pool of experts to research questions for them for a price. Yahoo Answers is all about leveraging the collective knowledge of the Yahoo community.”
In a second post, Price says “Yahoo Answers reminds me IN MANY WAYS of a web based Q&A community that has been online and growing for several years called Wondir.com.”
Like at Yahoo Answers, questions come from users all over the web and are organized into categories and searchable. RSS feeds are available and a scrolling ticker relays the latest asked questions, and personalization is available from MyWondir. The service officially launched in April and recently was acquired by the Revolution Health Group.
Turns out Revolution Health Group is controlled by Steve Case, whose assortment of recent investments are reviewed in this IPD post. When Revolution’s acquisition of Wondir was announced a few months ago, it was presented as one of multiple investments closely tied the healthcare industry. But the launch of Yahoo Answers (and Price’s post), serves as a reminder that Wondir has broader capabilities and potential applications. It makes one wonder if Case has bigger plans for Wondir.
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