A quick comparison of WikiAnswers and Yahoo! Answers.
August 15th, 2008 . by LizSocial Media Marketing (SSM) Blog did a quick comparison of WikiAnswers and Yahoo! Answers, the two leading Q&A sites on the market right now.
Let’s see what their perspective was, shall we?
On Q&A format:
In Yahoo! Answers, different users can reply with answer to a question, then the asker can select the best answer for that question. In WikiAnswers there is a wiki format which allows users to provide a single answer for each question, and that single answer can be edited and improved by any user.
On contributor personalization:
Users can personalize your profile in WikiAnswers. It gives you more flexibility, such as creating a personal message board, a watch list, a personal community and a personal io page. In Yahoo! Answers, users do not have access to personal networks or other personalizations.
Continue reading the article for statistical comparisons as well. It’s a little strange that they didn’t highlight the fact that while Yahoo! Answers leads the market by a vast majority, WikiAnswers is the fastest growing Q&A site and gaining on their top competitor constantly.
I love your search engine, even have it as my homepage, but I feel that your blog is very stupid and I don’t understand why a search engine as good as Answers would even need a blog.
Also, your wikipedia articles should have an autolink directly to the actual wikipedia article on the word “wikipedia”.
Actually, never mind, keep up the good work guys.
Thanks Quantum, we will look forward to have more conversion from you.