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I don't think this is just yahoo bashing, it succiently reflects user experience. If you see a yahoo answers link in your search results, do you think "aha, I

I don't think this is just yahoo bashing, it succiently reflects user experience. If you see a yahoo answers link in your search results, do you think "aha, I will click on this first because it probably answers my question"? I get happy when I see stackoverflow in my google results, because I suspect that I will actually get my question answered by clicking that link. A yahoo answers page may or may not be informative, about as often as a geocities page may or may not have useful information on it. Nothing about the site actually really encourages quality, so you end up very hit or miss.

mirkules 16y ago
For programming tasks, I am happy to see SO. But for other life inquiries, such as "why does my dog sleep at my feet", I get decent answers from Yahoo. In fact, I never viewed SO as a Yahoo! competitor, but a good complement - their audiences are different, and SO fills a nice niche that Yahoo's demographic is usually not capable of filling
- Goladus 16y ago
  I looked up that question. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj_AlHhmSE3TfJpAMn8dEkQjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080303030927AAnSe5m http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj_AlHhmSE3TfJp... Best answer, chosen by voters begins with: "I dont know the answer to your question." The rest are a bunch of random guesses by people who don't really know anything about the topic. That's actually exactly the sort of thread I am disappointed to find when I ask a question like that. I could just ask the nearest person or call my mother and get more or less the same results. Honestly, if I spent 30 seconds brainstorming I would probably come up with at least half of that list of answers. I'd turn to the web for slightly more detail and authority, which isn't in evidence there at all. That being said, I have been surprised at the number of times I've found relevant answers. It's more often than I expect, even if it's not as often as I'd like, and I do find the quality of Yahoo Answers to be less consistent than Stack Exchange,

mirkules 16y ago

For programming tasks, I am happy to see SO. But for other life inquiries, such as "why does my dog sleep at my feet", I get decent answers from Yahoo. In fact, I never viewed SO as a Yahoo! competitor, but a good complement - their audiences are different, and SO fills a nice niche that Yahoo's demographic is usually not capable of filling

Goladus 16y ago
I looked up that question. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj_AlHhmSE3TfJpAMn8dEkQjzKIX;_ylv=3?qid=20080303030927AAnSe5m http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Aj_AlHhmSE3TfJp... Best answer, chosen by voters begins with: "I dont know the answer to your question." The rest are a bunch of random guesses by people who don't really know anything about the topic. That's actually exactly the sort of thread I am disappointed to find when I ask a question like that. I could just ask the nearest person or call my mother and get more or less the same results. Honestly, if I spent 30 seconds brainstorming I would probably come up with at least half of that list of answers. I'd turn to the web for slightly more detail and authority, which isn't in evidence there at all. That being said, I have been surprised at the number of times I've found relevant answers. It's more often than I expect, even if it's not as often as I'd like, and I do find the quality of Yahoo Answers to be less consistent than Stack Exchange,