The main feature of Yahoo! Answers is a question and answer service/platform. Other similar services include Google Answers, Justanswer.com, Allexpert.com and many more. Some involve spending/earning money, some are entirely free. Besides a user-friendly interface, and a widely recognized brand that promises quality,  what would make you go to a site that require you to pay to ask a question, or on the other hand, get paid to answer a question?
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What do you mean ,get paid...where?
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It depends on your question. Certain questions have standard answers - which can be answered without much effort. Even if people are not aware of the right answer a simple browsing might be sufficient. Whereas the other questions for which you normally dont receive any answers really require some serious thinking. A lot of reading is required & further some really logical thinking will also be involved. Many are trying to answer as much questions as possible in the shortest time. I feel many of them are not ready to spend so much time answering a single question - where they could have answered at least a dozen!
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Google & Yahoo have different search engines and operate differently from one another. What you want to do is contact Yahoo and get them to explain how their engine works, and what you can do to increase your site rank.\n\nIf you are PAYING to be on Yahoo, then you need to contact your account rep immediately to fix the issue.
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good question.  I have always had a few questions that I've wanted answer for and have never known who to ask.  now I can just ask them.  but in the end, I see my points tick down, so since I'm a saver and not a spender in real life I en up answering peoples questions like "what is your purpose in answers.yahoo.com?" in hopes to earn 10 point.  Why I do that, I do not know but I sure hope that I get the right answers.   :)
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Looks like their pool of users was too small for one thing.  Also, in contrast to Yahoo Answers which is user-community driven and free, Google Answers employs a paid staff to do research and provide well-written responses (which are paid for by the asker).\n\nI had no idea they were shutting down until I saw this.  Good question.
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Because Google pay people to research your question and get really good answers.\n\nOn Yahoo anyone can answer your question so you might get a good answer or you might just get a totally rubbish answer.\n\nIn short you get what you pay for.
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What is the difference between Yahoo!Answers and Celebrity Jeopardy?\n\nOne features a panel of over-hyped, self-absorbed people who are unable to follow directions to answer a simple question, and the other is hosted by Alex Trebec.
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i think Yahoo is a big brand name and its not that easy to establish a brand pull on the net where u have n number of choices. Freebies dont matter what matters is yahoo has been here for so long now so it has a distinct advantage in terms on loyalty and awareness
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If it crosses the line of being compensated, or asking for business, it crosses the line of spamming.\n\nIf this is not policed, soon it will become an online Advertizing campaign, instead of a question and answer board.\n\nI do Real Estate and Loans.  I answer questions sometimes in those sections.  But I don't ask for business.  Many times I don't even say it's my profession.  \n\nWe all want to make money in life. But this forum is not the place to ask.  At least not advertently.
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talk about this site, why so many people ask questions and so many answer questions for a bunch of points that give you nothing.  Discuss why this site is so popular, is it people wanting to help each other or is it the anonymity factor of being able to say anything
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'professional' sites take either 1) professionals ($$) or 2) time and knowledge... if you have specific questions, then ask them (knowledge) but if you dont pay for it, it will take some effort (time)\n\nI do this for a living, and something like http://www.parrotletperch.com/new/ (a project for my wife) has taken over 5 hours to get where it is...
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I would never take any kind of job (even on the internet) that I had to pay to get started.  Before signing up for anything, ask yourself some questions:  What is the product?  Would I buy this for myself?  Why do I have to pay them to sell the product?
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i already typed this thing once and accidentally went to another page i hate it when i do that anyway: i had alot of trouble with site that were too expensive (there arent any that are free) yahoo has a free domain but you have to host there and thats too expensive on yahoo) or just didnt look trustworthy. but i found a good one, its cheap (especially for people that are just doin this for fun) its www.aplus.net. (what i did was buy the domain for $1.99/year through yahoo and hosted through aplus since its only $7.46/month compared to like $20.00/month. NOW IF YOU DO FIND SOMETHING THATS TOTALLY FREE PLEASE LET ME KNOW I HAVE SPENT COUNTLESS HOURS ON THIS COMPUTER LOOKING FOR FREE. (check out my site: www.wyndee.web.aplus.net) see if you like it and they have so many layouts that would do a sports page justice, ok im rambling, have fun.
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Yahoo!'s purpose: to make money.  I mean honestly, they show us advertisements and we look at them and the advertisers pay Yahoo! money to do it.  Even though Yahoo! Answers is in beta, I suspect we'll see advertising on here pretty soon.\n\nOur purposes: varied.  Some people really want answers, some people want entertainment, some people want to kill time.  Of course it's good to evaluate the answers you get and decide whether they work for you.
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You are correct. If you have good searching skills you can find most any answer on the net. For those who don't know how to search this site can be easier. The cautions about checking out your answers work the same for both. I would use this resource along side other methods of searching if I was in need of a answer to some question. You might get an answer here that you would get no where else. John
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make it free and when u generate the traffic, charge the advertisers. I wouldn't take the risk to pay for an ask the question service unless I was 200% sure the answer would be the correct answer and the person answering was legally bound.
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It has to be in the quality of the results that are coming up in the page. Both Google and Yahoo are very similar now in terms of their results so I tend to use both. Yahoo has some great features on their next.yahoo.com page so I think if some of these were widly available I would be more inclined to stick with them. \n\nI really liked that slider bar that allows you to move from Shopping results to Research results!\nMindest they have called it:\nhttp://mindset.research.yahoo.com/