Monday, April 10, 2006
Your answers
You ask, and you answer. Here is the entire world for you, answering your questions for free.
Or do you need some help with your homework? Try asking questions and get answers from Yahoo. This is the new beta service from Yahoo and it is called '`answers''. Launched last week, it draws upon the collective knowledge base of surfers.
The procedure is simple. Just login at http://answers.yahoo.com and post your question. The question could be ``What is the tallest structure in the world'' to How to poach an egg in the microwave? Wait for fellow surfers to chance upon your question and let them reply. You do get to evaluate the answers and see if the question has been resolved. Better still, why not answer a few questions yourself.
Within hours of its launch, the cyber community was abuzz and trying out the service. Some questions can be outright simple, and the answers, amazingly correct. In other cases, opinions rule the roost.
Check on this. Ques: When we eat eggs are we actually eating the embryo of a chicken? Ans: Not generally. Most egg laying chickens are not kept with males, and so are never fertilized. Much like a woman, however, the egg still comes out, but it's not been fertilized. So, like with humans, you wouldn't call the egg an embryo.
In another case, a patient at a hospital wants to know how to keep annoying people from finding his room number. Another wanted to know about the tallest structure in the world.
Is Yahoo Answers an answer to Google answers. Maybe, except that Google charges for your response. While Google claims that more than 500 carefully screened researchers answer a question for as little as $2.50 -- usually within 24 hours, Yahoo goes about it differently. It does not charge and there are no select researchers, but people like you and me who seek to enlarge the social networking circuit.
But there are some funny answers as well. Someone wants to know what is the greatest scapegoat ever. And pat comes the response: George Bush.
Or do you need some help with your homework? Try asking questions and get answers from Yahoo. This is the new beta service from Yahoo and it is called '`answers''. Launched last week, it draws upon the collective knowledge base of surfers.
The procedure is simple. Just login at http://answers.yahoo.com and post your question. The question could be ``What is the tallest structure in the world'' to How to poach an egg in the microwave? Wait for fellow surfers to chance upon your question and let them reply. You do get to evaluate the answers and see if the question has been resolved. Better still, why not answer a few questions yourself.
Within hours of its launch, the cyber community was abuzz and trying out the service. Some questions can be outright simple, and the answers, amazingly correct. In other cases, opinions rule the roost.
Check on this. Ques: When we eat eggs are we actually eating the embryo of a chicken? Ans: Not generally. Most egg laying chickens are not kept with males, and so are never fertilized. Much like a woman, however, the egg still comes out, but it's not been fertilized. So, like with humans, you wouldn't call the egg an embryo.
In another case, a patient at a hospital wants to know how to keep annoying people from finding his room number. Another wanted to know about the tallest structure in the world.
Is Yahoo Answers an answer to Google answers. Maybe, except that Google charges for your response. While Google claims that more than 500 carefully screened researchers answer a question for as little as $2.50 -- usually within 24 hours, Yahoo goes about it differently. It does not charge and there are no select researchers, but people like you and me who seek to enlarge the social networking circuit.
But there are some funny answers as well. Someone wants to know what is the greatest scapegoat ever. And pat comes the response: George Bush.
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