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moolcool moolcool
 
December 17, 2008 12:58 AM

Why is Mahalo Answers so similar to Yahoo Answers?

The avatars are Yahoo Answers-esque and there are a number of other striking similarities.
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girmant girmant
 
 December 17, 2008 01:21 AM
maybe because it has "Answers" in it's name? And avatars are similar in one way only - they are illustrations...

there are plenty of differences though:
1. the purpose it to share knowledge, so it's designed for different kind of audience
2. you may embed videos, MP3s, Photos, etc. - makes way more fun to use
3. you may earn some real money - how cool is that? I bet there will be lots of folks with lots of free time just tipping away and competing for Mahalo dollars (that you may convert to real cash)
4. it looks better too

these are just couple of things to start, I'm sure you'll get more complete answers...


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tracebooks tracebooks
 
December 17, 2008 01:14 AM
I would say because when there is a pretty obvious way to deal with a problem, different people are going to arrive at the same answer independently. For example, automobiles were invented nearly simultaneously by several people in several countries, and they all looked pretty similar and operated pretty similarly to each other. That's especially true where people are trying to come up with something that will be intuitive.

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youanden youanden
 
December 17, 2008 03:27 AM
Besides the obvious "Question/Answer" service... The green really reminds me of yahoo answers and so do the avatars... Very yahoo-ish...

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mukesh sah... mukesh sah...
 
December 17, 2008 08:18 AM
I think "Yahoo Answer + Google Answer = Mahalo Answer".

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youanden youanden
 
December 17, 2008 08:32 PM
I don't think so. Google really likes fast loading very small web pages... With all the gradients here... not for google.

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