Star Your Favorite Questions at Yahoo Answers

Jan 17, 2007 at 3:33pm ET by Chris Sherman

Yahoo is now allowing users to vote for their favorite questions at Yahoo Answers by adding a star next to interesting or high-quality questions. Similar to Flickr’s “Interestingness

Chris Sherman is Executive Editor of SearchEngineLand.com and President of Searchwise LLC, a Boulder Colorado based Web consulting firm. He also programs and co-chairs the Search Marketing Expo - SMX conference series.

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ONE COMMENT ON Star Your Favorite Questions at Yahoo Answers

gary, January 17th, 2007 at 7:10 pm ET:

Chris:
Just like to point out that in addition to Yahoo Answers and services similar to it, libraries from around the world offer FREE, 24×7, remotely accessible services where you chat one-on-one with a professional librarian or subject expert. They can not only help you find use material “on” the web but also lead you to fee-based databases that many libraries offer for free without having to visit the library.

In this post,
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2006/09/05/virtual-reference-for-non-librarians

we talk about several of these services, including national services in Australia and the U.K.

We also discuss expert powered Q&A services that are included in the AskA+ Locator.
http://www.vrd.org/locator/alphalist.shtml

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