I like the feedback mechanism and the crowds reply to a certain question. However, at some point some of the answers are motivated by some interested individuals.
Most of the time, it is a marketing campaign or a sales pitch.
I get excellent answers to my questions. It is good for emailing, and good search browser. I prefer to over using ask.com, it is a lot better then that. And it is just as good as using Google as a search browser.
Website owners use Yahoo Answers to drive traffic and improve SEO - I never understood why anyone would bother posting answers to questions on Yahoo Answers. Then I figured it out - people trying to promote their own websites. These people answer questions all the time so they can put the URL of their website into their post signature. I think some people believe each of these inbound links will increase their search ranking on Google, but these are NO FOLLOW links, so I don't think it will work for them. However, if you answer a lot of questions well on Yahoo Answers you will get a decent amount of traffic to your site (particularly if you get selected as a "best answer"). To me, this seems like a lot of work for 20-30 referrals/day. But I suppose if their posts are very topical each referral could be pretty valuable. Here's thread discussing this: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=*******
The idea of a Q&A site is great, but I think Yahoo Answers might be misleading millions of people because so many of the answers are just plain wrong and it's impossible to tell!
I used to use the site often when I wanted to look something up, but then I ran across some questions that I knew the answer to, and the answers on Yahoo Answers were wrong. I no longer use Yahoo Answers for anything (it would be like trying to learn history by reading Dan Brown).
Don't bother using Yahoo Answers. Your account will be terminated if you don't fit with their socialist agenda.
Though some Yahoo answers are just misleading, it is a good source to gather some information. Fairly recommend it.
Sure not always correct but is amazing with a good community, that are willing to help. Yahoo answers reminds me of this site but instead of site reviews they are Q&As. You can ask any questions such as... How to tell if something is overheatting?... to something like... What is a blah blah?... can be very helpful but can have spam or fake info every so often.
I used to enjoy this website very much, however in my opinion far too many of my questions are deleted. I could understand this if my questions were in violation of the Community Guidelines, however most of my questions are legitimate and I am posting them for the sole reason of increasing my knowledge, which is what this website is supposedly for.
In my experience the worst section of Yahoo! Answers seems to be Cars and Transportation. I have posted numerous questions about buses, which is one of my main interests, only for the majority of such questions to be deleted for no apparent reason.
Questions and answers are (as near as I can tell) uncensored and un-monitored in any way. This results in some crazy questions and even crazier answers sometimes.
I like this site a lot. If there's anything I want to know about any website or any topic, I find this website a great open forum where people discuss and share their own experiences. You can't always find answers to many questions, but most of the times you find honest people giving you adbices about whatever you want to know.
Why did yahoo block or delete my account when I was using it. When I send mail from another box to my yahoo account this is what I get: Remote host said:
554 delivery error: dd This user doesn't have a yahoo.co.uk account (uch****_******@yahoo.co.uk) [-5] - mta1096.mail.ir2.yahoo.com
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I have written to yahoo pleading to them that my life information is there and they should unblock it for me. Since 48 hours I have not received any response from them. Please can anyone help me
Yahoo answers is a great idea however some things on the website can be misleading it is possible for anyone to upload an answer to any question. If you would like to ask a research question like "how many wives did king Henry VIII have?" I would reccomend doing some research. If you would like to ask a question more like Where do i buy or how do i build, you might get a slightly better answer as people usually just upload links for these other websites, however some can still be misleading.
To conclude this website is a great idea however i would be very carefull when using this website and back up peoples answers with your own research
Thank you for reading my review
Michael Beeson
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Thanks I'll be ordering again it was goodie you want more it's not going to be good lol I'm all done
This site is very useful in answering any questions you might have about any topic! There is a big community of people just waiting to help you. Definitely worth checking out.
Peaceable Kingdom? This peaceable kingdom is a socialist kingdom more suited to a police state. The volunteers may be animal friendly but most certainly are not people friendly. The atmosphere is an un-caring fierce one controlled by the volunteers to put humans leaving an animal or wishing to adopt an animal 'in their place' and treat people as an un-welcome interruption in their 'busy' day. I recently found an animal in a wooded area, left it in one of my pet carriers under their awning as the web site states they open at 11:00 and it was only 10:40; I had to get to my real work-a-day job. I thought I was doing the right thing rather than leaving it in the woods! Did I learn my lesson. This snotty little teen comes out threatening me that she will call the police as I am abandoning an animal. I explained that it was not my animal; I was leaving it at a shelter, not abandoning it, and she angrily threatened me again with 'abandonment' as if it were my pet, telling me that if I'm holding it, it's mine and that I have to fill out the 'proper' documentation. I went inside and left my license for her to copy feeling like I was the bad person. Then I remembered that three years ago I'd visited there with my grand-daughters to view their cats and dogs in filthy enclosures with an eye towards adoption, and was treated the same way, being told that wanting a pet was no guarantee that I would 'qualify' for one. I was told to come back when they were not so busy (I was one of only three people searching at the time) and a young man told me to not get my hopes up. I wound up purchasing an animal from a pet shop instead where I was treated with respect and courtesy, as someone who wanted to give a pet a home, the opposite of how I was treated by these unruly overbearing pet politicians who seem to view humans as evil interruptions of their heroic efforts to house pets 'their way'.
Very interesting for finding some ideas and information. The reviewers are not experts usually but you can get some good information and continue on your own to check the facts.
It's a good site for input. When I look stuff up I get results from many places and compare. Answers.Yahoo.com is a good source to gather from. It's not always right, but no site is.
Very useful site for parents and kids to help with school. I had to use it to check on how to help my son with his homework. Could not live without it.
Answer: Try sending an email to the Yahoo! Answers Team.
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