Third time's a charm: Yahoo Answers

Dec-8-05, 7:31 pm by Hanford
File under: Yahoo, Trends, Bad User Interface

There's been some buzz today about the new Yahoo Answers. It's a site where users can ask questions, and other users can answer them. Yahoo used to have a section called Yahoo Experts which was virtually the same thing IIRC. It's been gone for a quite a while, but it appears as though the Help for Yahoo Experts is still around (I may use that help link to compare the old Experts site to Answers). Yahoo replaced Experts with Yahoo Advice which also dried up a long time ago. I wonder what Yahoo has done differently with Answers to ensure it doesn't end up disappearing like Experts and Advice. Better get this one right Yahoo, you're running out of name.

On a related note: Does Yahoo's Help Section need an overhaul, or what?! Still having help for a service that disappeared in 2002 isn't a good sign, Yahoo. I've been finding Bad User Experiences left and right with Yahoo's Help these days. Just see my previous blogs on Yahoo Mail for more. I'm don't want to write about Bad UI all the time, honestly ...

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DORNYO WISDOM wrote: Jul-1-06, 6:21 am

WHERE FROM THE AVATAR, IS IT HARMFULL TO OUR DOCUMENTS AND SECURITY OR PRIVACY, IS IT A SPY?

MY EMAIL: wisdomdornyo@yahoo.com

THANKS.

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