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Yahoo Answers and wisdom of the crowd. Jeremy Zawodny has the post on the Yahoo Search blog announcing a new product, Yahoo Answers. Jeremy describes it as "a place to tap the collective wisdom of the Internet for advice, recommendations, theories, jokes, ... whatever. " 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. Both Gary and Michael also contrast Yahoo's offering with Google Answers. Google Answers keeps quality high by charging a fee and restricting who can answer a question.
Unless Yahoo Answers' reputation system includes something novel that does a better job of ferreting out experts, the site will have the same problem all user-moderated forums have. People don't know what they don't know. There was a case in the news a couple years ago of a legal advice site that had user-moderated forums. Yahoo Mail. Yahoo/Google Competitive Product Matrix. Yahoo! Sports Fantasy Football. Yahoo!