Answerbag review

Answerbag lets you embed videos from YouTube into queries, which is especially helpful for answering how-to questions with less typing.

We like that you can post queries to Answerbag without displaying your real name. Profiles within Windows Live QnA, on the other hand, link to its users' Windows Live Spaces accounts. Your detailed personal profile page shows the status of your activity in addition to peer rankings. You earn a letter grade based on what other users think of your content. You can also comment on specific replies without posting your point as a new answer. And you can subscribe to answers for any question by e-mail or via RSS to feed into a newsreader.

Answerbag's help page offers a searchable list of topics and lets you post questions to receive replies from peers about using Answerbag.

Overall, Answerbag can be a fun diversion or a helpful resource. We're interested to see whether the video feature, which was introduced this summer, might get more practical use.