Tuesday, March 24, 2009

 

Why Are Yahoo! Answers Terrible?

I had never thought about it much until someone else brought it up (I think when I was down in Auburn for ASC 2009). Have you ever wasted your time checking the Yahoo! Answers when you google something? Seriously, I think I perused those things maybe 8 times, before realizing that they were worse than useless. Worse, because if they were demonstrably idiotic the first 8 times, then why would I trust the mechanism on the 9th time when it appeared plausible?

# posted by Bob Murphy @ 9:40 PM


Comments:
Because they are free. Google Answers (resurrected as UClue) gave great answers.
# posted by Blogger furudo.erika : March 25, 2009 at 2:16 PM
 
Or because they are one of those companies run by the IRS - they do not have to run on a profit & loss type business model? Thus no need to work well answering questions.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : March 26, 2009 at 1:47 AM
 
"Because they are free."

So is Wikipedia, but it's much, much better.
# posted by Blogger gcallah : March 26, 2009 at 6:56 PM
 
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# posted by Blogger Pat Galea : March 27, 2009 at 3:05 PM
 
You mean "how is babby formed"?
# posted by Blogger Pat Galea : March 27, 2009 at 3:06 PM
 
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