Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A;) site launched by Yahoo! on July 5, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver's Knowledge iN.
Yahoo! Answers is available in 12 languages, but several Asian sites operate a different platform which allows for non-Lat...
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Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A;) site launched by Yahoo! on July 5, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based on Naver's Knowledge iN.
Yahoo! Answers is available in 12 languages, but several Asian sites operate a different platform which allows for non-Latin characters. The platform is known as Yahoo! Knowledge in Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, and Hong Kong. An Arabic language Q&A; platform called Seen Jeem is available through the Yahoo! subsidiary Maktoob.
As of October 2009, Yahoo! Answers staff claimed 179 million users worldwide and over 1 billion questions and answers. On December 14, 2009 Yahoo! Answers announced 200 million users worldwide. Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, their former Q&A; platform. Ask Yahoo! was not discontinued until March 2006. In September 2009,...
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