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Both Gary Price and Michael Bazeley talk about the similarity of the new Yahoo Answers with existing forums and message boards. I think this comparison is pretty accurate. There are already moderated discussion forums where people can rate the quality of posts.
Yahoo Answers and wisdom of the crowd
Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix
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How Yahoo can beat Google
Google has pummeled Yahoo into near-obscurity: the early search leader – the Google of the 1990′s – Yahoo’s market cap is a fraction of GOOG’s while their search share is a distant second. It is easy to forget that Yahoo is actually a large and highly profitable company by most standards – over $6 billion in sales and more than $700 million in profits in 2006. But when you’re competing against the baddest internet company around, good isn’t good enough. Which is why ex-CEO Terry Semel was shown the door and a new team, co-founder Jerry Yang and CFO Mary Decker, are now at bat. Sclerotic decision-makingDo you like seeing your handiwork featured on hundreds of thousands of blogs? Do you thrive off discovering the shared insights of a distributed global network of voracious blog readers? Are you interested in crafting a UI that will help our members make sense of the thousands of tweets, photos, music tracks, and web links that they share with the world?
The MyBlogLog Blog
Is Yahoo! Answers the answer to the world's questions? Everyone has a story about their first WOW moment on the “Internet”. Mine was back in 1994, when I logged in on a green VAX terminal, and onto Usenet, the precursor to online forums. I still remember the wonder and excitement that there were “real people” online, complete strangers with funny handle names, sharing tips and ideas on everything from the latest Melrose Place episode, to figuring out URL encoding Chinese characters.
yumio's Journal
See Corrections & Amplifications item below. It is called "The Peanut Butter Manifesto" -- a four-page call to arms from a senior executive of Yahoo Inc., declaring the Internet company is spreading itself too thin and must define priorities and radically reorganize its management structure. Now the manifesto has attracted the attention of Yahoo's top brass as they scramble to boost revenue and protect the company's status as the most popular stopping point on the Web for U.S. users, amid heated competition from Google Inc. and others. (Read the memo)
As Yahoo Falters, Executive's Memo Calls for Overhaul - WSJ
Yahoo Memo: The 'Peanut Butter Manifesto' - WSJ.com
An internal document by Brad Garlinghouse, a Yahoo senior vice president, says Yahoo is spreading its resources too thinly, like peanut butter on a slice of bread. Full text of the document is below. Three and half years ago, I enthusiastically joined Yahoo YHOO -1.34% ! The magnitude of the opportunity was only matched by the magnitude of the assets.
Scaling the heights - Los Angeles Times
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Yahoo Launches Yahoo Answers -- ResearchBu
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Scripps Howard News Service
An SHNS investigation has found records indicating that dozens of individuals who had been banned as food-stamp vendors nonetheless remained in business in communities across the country. The federal government has opened investigations into alleged violators identified by Scripps. FOODSTAMPS-MAIN (Wolf, SHNS) -- An SHNS investigation has found records indicating that dozens of individuals who had been banned as food-stamp merchants nonetheless remained in business in communities across the country.Scripps Howard News Service
An SHNS investigation has found records indicating that dozens of individuals who had been banned as food-stamp vendors nonetheless remained in business in communities across the country. The federal government has opened investigations into alleged violators identified by Scripps. FOODSTAMPS-MAIN (Wolf, SHNS) -- An SHNS investigation has found records indicating that dozens of individuals who had been banned as food-stamp merchants nonetheless remained in business in communities across the country. The federal government has opened investigations into alleged violators pinpointed by Scripps. 1,300.Technology Review: Yahoo Ramps Up Research
For years, Yahoo has lagged behind its main rivals, Google and Microsoft, in offering new products and technologies. Consider that while Microsoft spent $6.18 billion on product development in 2005, Yahoo spent a mere $547 million. Now a new sense of urgency has taken hold in Yahoo's research offices. Most recently, the company hired Raghu Ramakrishnan, professor at the University of Wisconsin in Madison and an expert in data mining, information retrieval, and privacy. He'll work on the company's social search technology (the best example is Yahoo Answers, which attempts to leverage the knowledge and experience of a community of people who answer questions and provide information).People don't know what they don't know. Majority vote doesn't work if people don't have the information they need to have an informed opinion. Today, I saw Nathan Torkington's post on O'Reilly Radar, " Digging the Madness of the Crowds ": Steve Mallett, O'Reilly Network editor and blogger, was very publicly accused, via a Digg story, of stealing Digg's CSS pages. The story was voted up rapidly and made the homepage, acquiring thousands of diggs (thumbs-up) from the Digg community along the way.