Yahoo Answers

CNET editors' review

• CNET editors' rating: 3.5 stars Very good
  Detailed editors' rating
  Setup and interface : 7.0
  Features : 7.0
  Performance : 0.0
  Service and support : 7.0
  Overall score: 7.0 (3.5 stars)

• Reviewed by:
  Elsa Wenzel
• Reviewed on: 09/01/2006
• Released on: 05/15/2006

Once we signed into answers.yahoo.com with our Yahoo ID, we were able to ask and answer questions right away. You can display or hide an image or use a Yahoo avatar to represent you. Unlike the beta version of Windows Live QnA, which lets any user view your Spaces blog, when you sign up with Yahoo Answers, you can choose how much of your information other users can see. Therefore, you don't have to share your full name if it happens to be part of your Yahoo handle--a welcome privacy protection.

Yahoo Answers displays questions and replies within a bright, clean interface that allows you to reveal your Yahoo ID, hide your true identity, or flaunt an alter-ego avatar.

Yahoo Answers' queries are labeled by category, such as Business & Finance, Computers & Internet, and Pregnancy & Parenting. You can subscribe to an RSS feed for updates on your questions and save them to Yahoo's My Web, or you can ask Yahoo to e-mail you with the latest answers to your post. As it is a final product, Yahoo Answers offers many more questions and answers than the test edition of Windows Live QnA beta. Unfortunately, Yahoo's incoming list of the newest questions often gets cluttered with junk, such as "I love Chad" or "Who likes Montana chicks?" Luckily, Advanced Search lets you filter by keyword, category, and the number of thumbs-up ratings. Yahoo has toyed with allowing users to integrate Yahoo Videos into their posts but has dropped the idea at this point. Answerbag, on the other hand, allows you attach videos and images to queries and replies.

Yahoo Answers lets you rack up points according to how often and how well you answer other users' questions. Your account opens with a balance of 100 points, and you earn more according to how often and how well you answer other users' questions. A bar graph on your profile page shows how many times you've asked and answered questions. Each question remains open for seven days, during which time other users can provide answers and you can vote for the best answer.

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• 4.5 stars

  "It is GREAT"

  by mchboy1 on July 20, 2008

• 4.0 stars

  "Good way to get random answers to random questions"

  by woldage on October 25, 2006

• 2.5 stars

  "if your looking for help on homework or something that is needed to be done, forget it!"

  by wierdo_kev on September 2, 2006

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