Sunday, December 11, 2005

Yahoo Answers vs Google Answers

Three years after Google Answers was launched, Yahoo has copied the concept, with some major differences:

- It is free (Google charges at least $2 for an answer)
- Anyone can answer (Google has professional researchers)
- Links will appear in search results (something Google has neglected to do)

One commentator believes that Yahoo will kick Google butt. I disagree. Similar services, without the Yahoo brand and reach, have failed to become anything of any worth. I predict the same for Yahoo. It will become a spammy embarassment.

1 Comments:

Greg said...

Between the two if I needed the answer to a serious question I would use Google, because like you said they're using professionals. One thing I've learned about support from other users is most of the time they're smart asses. This isn't true in all cases, but get on the Mozilla Firefox support forums and you'll see what I'm talking about. They act like you're stupid and don't know what your talking about and have a real attitude problem themselves. Stop copying Google already, Yahoo!

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