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Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Leech Blocker — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:21:30 -0000

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.

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

John Blossom — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:19:31 -0000

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.

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Vince Williams — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:25:18 -0000

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.

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Spud — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 15:51:29 -0000

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.

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Liz — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 07:24:52 -0000

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... and a downloadable client (http://www.answers.com/main....

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

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Pete Cashmore — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 02:16:14 -0000

AW,

Wouldn't you rather just copy and paste the word into the Answers search in Firefox (seems to be one of the defaults)?

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

AW — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 00:30:22 -0000

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 donâ€™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 donâ€™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 donâ€™t you think? AnswerTips is a revolutionary tool.

Best regards, AW

Re: Answers.com Launches AnswerTips – Another Way to Squander Your Blog Traffic

Allen Stern — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:34:12 -0000

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.