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Mashable - The Social Media Guide: 2007/02/21/answertips/

  • Allen Stern · 2 years ago
    Thanks for the link Pete. I agree with you about the paying the blogger. I wonder if they paid the "test" sites. I don't see any mention on their sites.

    And double-clicking would be like saying hold down alt, hit 6 and then press 23. It's not "normal" and most users won't get it.
  • AW · 2 years ago
    Hello,

    You had a hard tone and some stupid comments in you writing here. I personally think that the tool is great! Do you actually understand that some visitors don’t always understand every single word on some website crammed with terminologies or that some visitors may not speak English as their first language? Let say for instance that I don’t understand what LOL means or maybe EPS (do you know what the second one means) if you have AnswerTips enabled on you website I could instantly double-clicked the words and get the information I need, peaty cool don’t you think? AnswerTips is a revolutionary tool.

    Best regards, AW
  • Pete Cashmore · 2 years ago
    AW,

    Wouldn't you rather just copy and paste the word into the Answers search in Firefox (seems to be one of the defaults)?
  • Liz · 2 years ago
    Hey Pete,

    Thanks for noticing AnswerTips! I just want to clarify a few things:

    AnswerTips is available as a Firefox extension (http://www.answers.com/main/firefox_plugins.jsp) and a downloadable client (http://www.answers.com/main/download_answers_wi...).

    Bloggers are not getting paid to AnswerTips-enabling their blogs and their are no ads on the AnswerTip itself.

    The advantage for the blogger is that readers can double-click a word they don't recognize and get a small bubble with info rather than open a new browser window and leave the blogger's site. It is designed to keep the reader moving - on your own site.

    If you have any suggestions, please let us know - lizc at answers.com - we'd love to hear from you as we continuously work on AnswerTips.

    Thanks,

    Liz
    Answers.com
  • Spud · 2 years ago
    Nice development. Thumbs up to Answers on this one. I may implement this on my blogs and I'm sure plenty of others can see advantages in this too.
  • Vince Williams · 2 years ago
    I think the business model of a lot of the companies that offer these services is to convince the prospective customer that he should pay for something that by rights the company should pay for.

    I've always thought that was the real genius of so many corporations here--the effortless way they stick it the client, and demand that he pay for the stud service as well.
  • John Blossom · 2 years ago
    Pete,

    I think that you missed the boat on this one. The ads are not required to use the feature - if you look carefully the CBS site's popup box is co-branded and the ads are for CBS shows. Doesn't sound like a revenue-loser from my perspective. More at:

    http://www.shore.com/commentary/weblogs/2007/02/answercoms-answertips-come-to-weblogs.html

    Best Regards,
    John Blossom
    President
    Shore Communications Inc.
  • Leech Blocker · 8 months ago
    Here's how you can block answerstips for good in IE7
    Go to
    Tools,
    Options,
    Click th Security tab then
    Click restricted sites
    then clcik the sites button

    Add " *.answers.com " to the restricted sites list - without the quotes and click OK

    Then with notepad or another text editor

    Edit the hosts file ( The Default Location is c:/windows/systems32/drivers/etc/hosts )

    Add the line

    127.0.0.1 answers.com

    to the list.

    Voila " No More AnswerTips "

    GoodBye WebSquatter.



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