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Yahoo Answers Outlives MSN QnA

MSN QnA isn't long for this world; an announcement posted yesterday on its official blog made clear that Microsoft's site designed to help people share information and opinions will close on May 21st.  At the same time, Yahoo Answers appears to be healthier than ever.

Yahoo Answers Unquestionably Successful

Yahoo promotes all sorts of things - options relating to search, shopping, and mail, among other subjects, are given the top spaces and bold boxes on its homepage.  But Yahoo Answers is near the top of a side column thanks to alphabetization, and new stats reveal that the service is extraordinarily popular.

Yahoo Answers Ahead In Q&A Site Visits

The market share of U.S. visits to a custom category of Question and Answer websites has increased 118 percent for the week ending Mar. 15, 2008, compared to the same week in 2007, Hitwise reported today. Over the past two years, U.S. visits to this category have increased 889 percent comparing Feb. 2008 versus Feb. 2006.

Speaker Pelosi Queries Yahoo Answers

Yahoo's efforts at heightening awareness of global warming has drawn a question from a very high-profile person for the Yahoo Answers audience.

Looking for Answers from Yahoo Answers

Yahoo Answers has some explaining to do.

Yahoo Answers Launches New Social Network

Much was made of Yahoo’s widely publicized failure in reaching a deal to acquire Facebook, the social network that is second only to MySpace in terms of popularity and usage. Rather than focus on the past, however, Yahoo has simply decided to create it’s own social utility.

Yahoo Answers Unicef And Widgets Vista

They have long supported charitable works by their employees and users, with the latest effort combining star power and Yahoo Answers to bolster the Up Close 2007 campaign to benefit Unicef.

Yahoo Answers Reaches For The Stars

A new feature has been added to Yahoo Answers, which has become a very successful destination at the Internet portal. Answers gained a new ability to share thanks to its development team.

Yahoo Has All The Answers (Well, 96% Of Them)

Question and answer (Q&A) sites have a long way to go if they want to take market share away from Yahoo Answers. A really long way. Hitwise's LeeAnn Prescott reports that Yahoo Answers controls a little over 96 percent of it.

Yahoo Extends Answers To The API

Web developers can get to the question and answer site, Yahoo Answers, through an application programming interface recently made available on the Yahoo Developer Network.