Pete, nice post. But like you say, Google doesn't always win!
ankur
· 3 years ago
Ditto!
Horrible, horrible idea.
Everything they do - dare i say........robotic?
Amanuel
· 3 years ago
The idea of ‘pay for answers’ has never worked, I suspect google may be coming back with something more substantial as a response to Yahoo Answers which is not that good…but I’m biased
The only place ‘pay for answers’ seems to be working is some UK cell based service….don’t have URL for it…but on the UK service it is about getting a response while you are in physically constrained place and not in front of your computer…ie worth paying for. For example, you don’t dial 411 at home, but do when you are outside on your cell…same thing with answers.
Cheers.
Richard Ball
· 3 years ago
The timing's interesting in that Yahoo Answers is being integrated into Yahoo Search. This adds a unique flavor to their search results. Could this help them in the search engine battle with Google? Perhaps Yahoo is moving towards social search while Google is going for full automation. I'd like to see Yahoo integrate del.icio.us with search. Either on the front end by tacking on popular or recently bookmarked URLs to the SERPs or on the back end by treating popular bookmarks as authoritative. Would be interesting to see how that sort of approach stacks up against the PageRank system of valuing links. What's a better indication of authority - a link or a bookmark?
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The idea of ‘pay for rissi palmer has never worked, I suspect google may be coming back with something more substantial as a response to Yahoo Answers which is not that good…but I’m biased
The only place ‘pay for answers’ seems to be working is some UK cell based service….don’t have URL for it…but on the UK service it is about getting a response while you are in physically constrained place and not in front of your computer…ie worth paying for. For example, you don’t dial 411 at home, but do when you are outside on your cell…same thing with answers.
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Horrible, horrible idea.
Everything they do - dare i say........robotic?
The only place ‘pay for answers’ seems to be working is some UK cell based service….don’t have URL for it…but on the UK service it is about getting a response while you are in physically constrained place and not in front of your computer…ie worth paying for. For example, you don’t dial 411 at home, but do when you are outside on your cell…same thing with answers.
Cheers.
http://go.ogleanswers.com/
The idea of ‘pay for rissi palmer has never worked, I suspect google may be coming back with something more substantial as a response to Yahoo Answers which is not that good…but I’m biased
The only place ‘pay for answers’ seems to be working is some UK cell based service….don’t have URL for it…but on the UK service it is about getting a response while you are in physically constrained place and not in front of your computer…ie worth paying for. For example, you don’t dial 411 at home, but do when you are outside on your cell…same thing with answers.
Cheers.