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 […]
Barry Schwartz on December 28, 2006 at 9:16 am | Reading time: 1 minute
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 Answers (11 points)
- Live QnA (7 points)
- Askville (6 points)
- AnswerBag (4 points)
- Wondir (4 points)
- 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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In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.
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