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easyeboy easyeboy
 
M$1 December 30, 2008 07:42 AM

What other question and answer services have you used, tried or have found interesting besides Mahalo Answers?

Are you 100% loyal to Mahalo Answers or do you ask questions on more than one answers site at a time? Why do you find Mahalo Answers to be a better Answers site than the others, and where do you see its strengths and weakness? What features are missing on Mahalo Answers? Have you ever researched your answers on other sites before answering them on Mahalo Answers? What do you believe Mahalo Answers does better? Do you believe any of these sites should just be bought by Mahalo Answers (ie. Mosio)? Do you use niche answers sites? Are there times when you feel uncomfortable asking a question on Mahalo Answers, and would you ask a question on one of the below sites? Do you use any of the below sites, why or why not? Tip goes to the best and most well thought out answerer.

Here is a list of Answers sites I've looked at, some of them I've used as well.

Afraid to Ask
http://www.afraidtoask.com
Medical and health answers you were afraid to ask.

Answerbag
http://www.answerbag.com
General question and answer.

Ask an Owner
http://www.askanowner.com
Ask someone who owns something.

Ask Doctor Joshua
http://www.askdoctorjoshua.com
Ask a doctor.

Ask Sutra
http://www.asksutra.com
Searches Multiple Answers sites at once. Its motto is Real Answers. Real Opinions. Real People.

Automobile Answers
http://www.automobileanswers.com
Ask about cars.

AskMeGo
http://www.askmego.com
General question and answer.

Blurtit
http://www.blurtit.com
General question and answer.

Essortment
http://www.essortment.com
Read articles covering health, science, business and other topics for free on Essortment.

Geeks to Go
http://www.geekstogo.com
Tech questions and answers.

Help.com
http://www.help.com
General questions and answers.

Medhelp
http://www.medhelp.org
You can ask a doctor.

Mosio
http://www.mosio.com
You can text questions from your phone.

Muchobene
http://www.muchobene.com
General question and answer.

Nobosh
http://answers.nobosh.com
Business community answers to you.
Omglili
http://qna.omgili.com
Search Engine. Omgili Q&A is a sub-section of Omgili that is dedicated to finding questions and answers.

Pic Answers
http://www.picanswers.com
You can only ask questions with pictures here.

Predictify
http://www.predictify.com
Predict the future and build a reputation based on their accuracy.

Quenchmark
http://www.quenchmark.com
General Question and Answer.

Questler
http://www.questler.com
General Questions and Answers.

Quno
http://www.qunu.com
Qunu connects you in realtime to people who require immediate software or tech-related help with experts.

Uclue
http://www.uclue.com
A paid question and answer service. Former Google Answers Researchers (only) may contact us to register as Uclue researchers.

Web Answers
http://www.webanswers.com
General Question and Answer

Wise Geek
http://www.wisegeek.com
Provides a team of writers and editors dedicated to providing clear and concise answers to common questions.

Whyzz
http://www.whyzz.com
Answers questions children ask.

Yahoo Answers
http://answers.yahoo.com
General Question and Answer.
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jasoncalac... jasoncalac...
 
 December 30, 2008 08:26 AM
Muchobene has an interesting client feature where you get an incoming call to answer a live question. it's a neat concept.... like live experts, but I don't think it's really gotten any traction. I'm sure there is a chicken and egg issue... i.e. critical mass of experts.

Yahoo Answers uber low quality, as I've found AskVille and most of wiki.Answers. Clearly it's relatively easy to start a knowledge exchange--keeping up quality seems to be the hard part.
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easyeboy easyeboy
 
December 30, 2008 01:35 PM
I have not tried Muchobene. Sometimes I wish someone would shut Yahoo Answers down, as the quality of answers have been very unprofessional at times or the site is just not user friendly. I hope this does not happen to Mahalo Answers. This is one example where a bigger community is not any better.

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offthedome offthedome
 
December 30, 2008 07:54 AM
I've tried predictify.com. That can be a pretty fun site where you ask people to make predictions, and you can win money on that site as well.
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http://www.predictify.com


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easyeboy easyeboy
 
December 30, 2008 08:06 AM
Good one! Any thoughts on the others. You can't say you've tried any of the others?

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offthedome offthedome
 
December 30, 2008 05:10 PM
The only other one I've tried is Yahoo Answers. I go to that one only when I want a joke-ish question answered, like "who would win, a kickboxer or a jujitsu master?" Those questions get enormous response on yahoo answers.

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demanda demanda
 
December 30, 2008 09:02 AM
I was a Yahoo Answers member very early on, but I rarely use it now. I found too many people there to be unnecessarily rude, and there are way too many teenagers/pre-teens that frequent there. However, with the sheer size of their site, it is understandably difficult to filter out all of the garbage.
That being said, I do like the fact that questions can be "starred" as interesting, and their number of active users is impressive. Depending on the topic, you can get a great number of answers very quickly. I have received some very helpful information via YA, and it does have its niche.

Another site that I use occasionally is Answerbag. I don't have any complaints about this site, per se, but I wouldn't really depend on it for serious knowledge-based questions. I've actually referred some AB users to Mahalo Answers because I've felt their questions could be better answered here. However, AB is great for asking conversational questions and quickly getting lots of people's opinions on things. I like the fact that you can rate questions, in addition to answers, and once you hit 'submit', your answer goes right through. It has a very laid-back, community, aspect to it that I enjoy. I really dislike the aesthetics of Answerbag. It looks very generic and boring. MA is definitely the most aesthetically pleasing question and answer site that I have ever used.

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teff torbe... teff torbe...
 
December 30, 2008 09:04 AM
Here's an interesting one:

ChaCha. You sign up for it, and then can text to it. There are people at the other end that actually answer the question for you, so you can get better information than texting Google where a machine search isn't going to provide the necessary touch.

http://www.chacha.com/

Not the ideal place for detailed questions, but I've used it a couple of times for a couple small ones, and the answers have been what I needed.


Here's an example of a question where, yeah, you could look it up on a phone with internet access, but a person sitting at a PC will be able to get it far more easily:
http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-calories-are-in-a-crunch-wrap-supreme-from-taco-bell%3F

http://www.chacha.com/question/how-long-is-a-cubit%3F


Of course, as it's a human, you can get a very wrong answer:
http://www.chacha.com/question/how-many-calories-does-a-slice-of-pepperoni-pizza-from-pizza-hut-have%3F
Source(s):
http://chacha.com


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darth cont... darth cont...
 
December 30, 2008 02:27 PM
I've used Yahoo, AnswerBag and JustAnswers.

I like AnswerBag best out of the three, in part because Yahoo has some rather draconian moderation and unresponsive customer "support", and because JustAnswers is a pay service. The latter is great though for an urgent question that you need a reliable answer for; I've had car trouble recently and they have a number of ASE certified mechanics online who've been able to answer my questions for a reasonable price.

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connectedg... connectedg...
 
December 30, 2008 02:51 PM
I haven't used any of those sites.

The only site I have used is this one and Google.

If I can't find it on Google, I ask my wife and she looks for it ;)

Now that I have Mahalo Answers, I don't need to ask my wife anymore ;)

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bhellman1 bhellman1
 
December 30, 2008 03:08 PM
I highly suggest two answers sites depending on the criteria.

For Business, Finance, Investing, and Real Estate you want to use NOBOSH ANSWERS - http://answers.nobosh.com

Hands down nobosh is the best business community on the internet.

For Relationship Advice and Dating Advice, use This Could Be HUGE! Advice - http://advice.thiscouldbehuge.com

You won't be sorry you did
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http://nobosh.com
http://answers.nobosh.com
http://thiscouldbehuge.com
http://advice.thiscouldbehuge.com


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bhasky bhasky
 
December 30, 2008 10:33 PM
I have tried http://www.yedda.com
It tries to hunt for someone based on his declared interests and invites them to answer your question.

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321answers 321answers
 
October 23, 2009 07:50 PM
http://www.321answers.com is a useful site for questions and answers along with http://www.blurtit.com
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http://www.321answers.com


Tags: answers, questions

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