I was playing Yahoo Answers this morning. Yahoo Answers is a product to utilize social community to solve questions that cannot be answered easily by search engine. This is another machine Vs. human comparison.

For someone that still doesn’t get what Yahoo answers is doing, here is a good question for you: What is so special about yahoo answers? And the answer is good, so that I will quote it here:

It’s just like a message board but instead of meaningless rambling it is all questions… And quite possibly the largest forum in the world eventually.

What I like Yahoo Answers right now is two things:

  • Just like any other meme engine, YA use big font size to show important headlines. Although, what means important here is not so sure.
  • Even you don’t ask or answer any questions, you can learn a lot by just browsing, and get points by rating. So it will be a good way to kill time, if you are bored.

So where are you going today?