Question & Answer Search Engines Ranked

Via Slashdot, What’s the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services. They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming out tops. Here’s the rundown: Yahoo […]

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Via Slashdot, What’s the Best Q&A Site? from MIT Technology Review tests several question and answer search engine services.

They reviewed and ranked AnswerBag, Askville, Live QnA, Wondir, Yahoo Answers and Yedda. So how did they rank? Out of a total 12 points, Yahoo Answers scored 11 points, coming out tops.


Here’s the rundown:

  1. Yahoo Answers (11 points)
  2. Live QnA (7 points)
  3. Askville (6 points)
  4. AnswerBag (4 points)
  5. Wondir (4 points)
  6. Yedda Answers (4 points)

Hitwise posted figures and data to show market share of the different Q&A search engines.

  • Yahoo Answers with 96%
  • Answerbag with 2%
  • Windows Live QnA with 1%
  • Wondir with 0.7%
  • Askville with 0.11%
  • Yedda with 0.02%

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Barry Schwartz
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Barry Schwartz is a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics. Barry can be followed on Twitter here.

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