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.

Wade Roush, writing for MIT’s Technology Review, began the discussion by rating the best Q&A sites. Roush examined Yahoo Answers, Askville, Live QnA, Answerbag, Yedda, and Wondir. Yahoo’s site came out on top, presumably for the sheer number of users.

Prescott took the cue and did a quick statistical rundown. Yahoo Answers is the 100th ranked domain out of about 500,000 that Hitwise tracks, and is second in the greater genre of user-generated knowledge only to Wikipedia. Yahoo captured only about 1/5 of Wikipedia’s Education – Reference traffic.

But when compared to other pure-form Q&A sites, Yahoo Answers crushes all other services like it. Only three of the six sites mentioned in the review broke the one percent mark. Microsoft’s Windows Live QnA popped in at number three with one percent, Answerbag attracted just over two percent.

Yahoo Answers captured 96.1 percent of the US market.

“[F]or the week ending 12/23/06,” writes Prescott, “the market share of visits to Yahoo! Answers was 47X greater than the share of visits to its nearest competitor, Answerbag.”

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Kyle Raine
July 25, 2007 at 4:19 am

However, yahoo is biased against Traditional Fundamentalist Christians and favors atheists and Literalists (known as “fundies”). They deliberately allow fundies to post nonsense because they know it is used as stereotype fodder against all protestant Christians and creates hostility to all Christians in general. That is why they won’t delete users (and even bring them back) such as fireball226 and pastorart. They also allow atheists to flood the religion and spirituality section with nonsense, apparently in order to wear down the Christians and anyone who is religious. They also cater to “Pangel” because she draws in many users. So they hook them in and pound them down in order to spread atheism and godlessness. Pangel doesn’t realize she’s a pawn.

I had over 20 counts in one month deleted. I kept having to make them and back up accounts in order to have some decent position but they finally blocked my ip so that I can’t participate. They consider an “insult” anything that upsets their worldview and use that as an excuse for deleting my answers and questions and banning me.

So for now I am using answersbag which is much better.