There’s a new API and web service available on the Internet. This one comes from question and answer site Answerbag, whose founder Joel Downs said the API offers sites flexibility in monetizing their pages.
Yahoo Answers Unicef And Widgets Vista
They have long supported charitable works by their employees and users, with the latest effort combining star power and Yahoo Answers to bolster the Up Close 2007 campaign to benefit Unicef.
Yahoo Answers Gaining Star Power
If you’re a regular contributor to Yahoo’s Q&A portal, you might find that the company has added some additional features to the service. The latest additions give Yahoo Answers a social networking flare that could propel it into contention with other user submission portals, such as Digg.
Yahoo Answers Reaches For The Stars
A new feature has been added to Yahoo Answers, which has become a very successful destination at the Internet portal. Answers gained a new ability to share thanks to its development team.
Google’s Most-Asked Questions (And Answers)
Ever wonder what sort of questions people are asking about Google’s services? Well, just in case you were, there’s a new list showing the “top questions” from the help files of 26 different services. And if that’s not enough to draw you in, a number of “funny, funky, noteworthy or weird quotes” from those same help files follows afterward.
Amazon Says NowNow For Mobile Answers
Hot on the heels of their Askville release, Amazon.com has just debuted NowNow, a mobile service that will provide up to three answers per question for up to 25 cents per question.
Yahoo Has All The Answers (Well, 96% Of Them)
Question and answer (Q&A) sites have a long way to go if they want to take market share away from Yahoo Answers. A really long way. Hitwise’s LeeAnn Prescott reports that Yahoo Answers controls a little over 96 percent of it.
Leo Wants Some Answers
Hollywood recruits one of it’s biggest names to ask the tough questions about the environment on Yahoo! Answers.
Google Answers Is Closing
Google has announced that Google Answers, the very first non-search project from Google, is closing down forever. Come the end of the year, Answers will stop accepting new questions, although the old pages will remain up as archives.
Google Answers Crashes Out
Even though few of Google’s services beyond search have caught on with the public like its omnipresent search engine, the company rarely kills off those projects; that made the announcement that Google Answers would be shutdown mildly surprising.