Comments on: LinkedIn Answers Launched http://searchengineland.com/linkedin-answers-launched-10214 Search Engine Land: Must Read News About Search Marketing & Search Engines Sat, 13 Mar 2010 07:29:48 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Solomon Rothman Web Design Search Engine Marketing http://searchengineland.com/linkedin-answers-launched-10214/comment-page-1#comment-474 Solomon Rothman Web Design Search Engine Marketing Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:26:34 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/linkedin-answers-launched-10214.php#comment-474 After my initial browse - the Q & A section looks good, I'm putting it on my list of things to try out / manipulate / enjoy. Thanks for the news. After my initial browse – the Q & A section looks good, I’m putting it on my list of things to try out / manipulate / enjoy. Thanks for the news.

]]> By: Arnaud fischer http://searchengineland.com/linkedin-answers-launched-10214/comment-page-1#comment-473 Arnaud fischer Mon, 08 Jan 2007 19:35:17 +0000 http://searchengineland.com/beta/linkedin-answers-launched-10214.php#comment-473 Awesome! I also tried several Q&A services to get a high level definition of "sentiment analysis" over the past weeks, including LinkedIn. Answer services are sort of a hybrid between algo search and human-run directories with a different user interaction model where you can ask plain English questions and get plain English answers. What I really like is that answers come from people, somewhat along the path of Wikipedia, although the set of info retrieved is made of more diverse answers rather than one by consensus. it seems that answering services do better for sophisticated queries in the form of plain English questions than do 2.1 keywords typed in a traditional search box. Most volunteering to answer questions do care (or is it the miles?), include subjective in nature opinions and often provide "tone" clues turning Answers databases into wonderful data sets to mine, extract and make sense of "sentiments". Overall, LinkedIn did pretty well ... by a long shot. Makes sense, my network is made up of people that i) care about Sentiment Analysis ... if anybody does, and ii) care about me, ... not, or to some extent ... say, just a tinny bit more than a total stranger. Answers are as good as the people you ask the questions from, right? Well, LinkedIn is all about people you know and just released an Answer service with a really nice, intuitive, minimalist and simple Answers results page. -arnaud Awesome! I also tried several Q&A services to get a high level definition of “sentiment analysis” over the past weeks, including LinkedIn. Answer services are sort of a hybrid between algo search and human-run directories with a different user interaction model where you can ask plain English questions and get plain English answers. What I really like is that answers come from people, somewhat along the path of Wikipedia, although the set of info retrieved is made of more diverse answers rather than one by consensus. it seems that answering services do better for sophisticated queries in the form of plain English questions than do 2.1 keywords typed in a traditional search box. Most volunteering to answer questions do care (or is it the miles?), include subjective in nature opinions and often provide “tone” clues turning Answers databases into wonderful data sets to mine, extract and make sense of “sentiments”.

Overall, LinkedIn did pretty well … by a long shot. Makes sense, my network is made up of people that i) care about Sentiment Analysis … if anybody does, and ii) care about me, … not, or to some extent … say, just a tinny bit more than a total stranger. Answers are as good as the people you ask the questions from, right? Well, LinkedIn is all about people you know and just released an Answer service with a really nice, intuitive, minimalist and simple Answers results page.

-arnaud

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