Yahoo! Answers becoming a dominant portion of Yahoo!'s web activity

Posted Jun 12th 2006 10:23AM by Tobias Buckell
Filed under: Good news, Consumer Experience, Blogs, Yahoo! (YHOO)

Yahoo! Answers is a very cool service and very popular. It showcases how Yahoo! can provide the technology to connect consumers and producers -- in this case, the producers of answers.

I didn't realize just how popular Yahoo! Answers was until I spotted this blog post by Steve Rubel of Micro Persuasion that passed on info from SEO Watch. Apparently, Yahoo! Answers is really exploding into something big online right now. Yahoo! Answers has had some 10 million answers posted, some 4% of the entire US that is online has visited it, and it is now the third largest reference site.

That's just amazing if you think about it. Steve posts some Technorati and Google trend charts that show Yahoo! Answers is on a growth curve. As Yahoo! turns to figuring out how to monetize and utilize this traffic, Yahoo! Answers could have a big impact on Yahoo!'s bottom line.

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