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Yahoo Answers opens

yahooanswersLooking for an answer? Yahoo extends its web service offerings with the brand-new Yahoo Answers (in beta, of course). Unlike Google Answers, where you tell a Google employee how much you'd pay for an answer (which sounds totally goofy to me), Yahoo's service is free. Gary Price over at SearchEngineWatch has a full rundown and chat with Ofer Shaked, Director of Engineering for Yahoo Search. Ofer reminds us that, as a beta, anything is possible for future changes. But for now, essentially anyone can post a question about anything, and have the Yahoo community answer. Points are awarded for answering, and new users aren't allowed to post a zillion questions at once. While there are some safeguards, I did find it funny that the top question on the page I'm looking at is, "Do penis exercises really work?" A nice twist to all this is the ability to vote on undecided questions, like the debate around "how much wood could a woodchuck chuck?" Take it for a spin and let us know what you get answered... Except those exercises— I really don't want to know.
 
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