By: Jay Bailey

Jay Bailey — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 09:45:19 +0000

Hi LeeAnn –
Curiously, the MIT Tech Review (and your post) left out Hitwise client FAQ Farm (http://www.faqfarm.com), an Answers.com property. Adding it into to the Hitwise chart above, it actually comes in second place, just below Yahoo! Answers with over twice the market share of Answerbag.
Try it out and you’ll agree, I hope, that FAQ Farm is absolutely a member of this category, and then some: on the other sites on this list, answers can’t be improved upon when they contain mistakes — they are simply rated. On FAQ Farm, you can collaborate with others. Good answers grow over time into great answers…

By: Yaniv Golan

Yaniv Golan — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 04:56:30 +0000

Thanks LeeAnn, obviously I found this info very useful and interesting!
One quick note though – while we’re happy to be on the world’s leading Q&A sites 4 months after our launch, I have to admit that being the competitive type of person that I am, I immediately fired up my Excel and did some quick math -
According to my rough calculations, when you factor in the length of time that each service has been live, you find that Yahoo Answers is still leading the pack, Askville next and Yedda 3rd. Given the fact that Yedda does not enjoy some of the marketing benefits which are associated with Yahoo or Amazon, I believe that this is an interesting result.
This rough calculation does not take into account the network effect though.
I’ll be glad to share the calculation details with you if you’re interested.

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