Yahoo! Answers is One
December 14th, 2006 by pamela
Yahoo! is celebrating the first birthday of its social Q&A site only weeks after Google put their similar product into retirement.
With 16.6 million users gathered in the past year, Yahoo! Answers might just be one of Yahoo!’s most successful products ever. To celebrate Yahoo! commissioned a survey with Harris Interactive which found that one in three adults have used a Q&A site, with half of these (52%) saying that the answers they received helped them make a decision – and with top quality questions such as Can muhammad ali kelle fight a tiger and kill it?i mean if a tiger gets a punch of his on it face will it die? – that’s both astounding and a little worrying…
In its first year, Yahoo! Answers has seen 60 million answers from its active community, which is unsurprising given that 77% of adults questioned said that they were more likely to turn to the internet if they needed an answer to something their friends and family weren’t familiar with – or more likely that they might freak them out given some of the crazy questions on there. You’ve gotta be concerned.
According to Hitwise data, last week Yahoo! Answers ranked 240 among all categories of websites and 22 in the Hitwise Net Communities and Chat category, based on share of UK internet visits. The market share of UK based visits has grown 9% in the past month, 39% in the past eight weeks and more than 30 fold in the past six months. Pretty impressive.
I love Yahoo! Answers – its supremely entertaining and it really does have a great community feel, as different to Google’s attempt as you could get. Just try not to lie awake at night worrying about how the lives of some of the people are going to turn out….
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