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01.23.08
Amazon As A Contender In Q&A
 By
Andrew Wee
If you've visited the online retailer Amazon (they've gone way beyond books and CDs and DVDs for quite some time), you'd notice their foray into a new area with their "Askville" site.
Askville is a site where users can ask questions and get answers.
It's a little different from similar sites out there with a "ranking" (level?) system for users, and there's an opportunity to earn "gold". Additionally there's shopping engine features built in with product recommendation.
Do contributors earn commissions or "gold" if readers buy the recommended product?
I'll need to delve deeper into the site to get the answers.
But since late last year, internet users have been asking, "Is Amazon's Askville just another Yahoo! Answers"?
Yahoo! Answers is also a community centered around user generated questions and answers, and participants get to vote for the best answer. Being an earlier product, it doesn't appear that Yahoo is geared towards promoting products, or generating commissions.
They have a comprehensive and somewhat complex Points System.
Although I think the rationale behind needing points to ask a question, and then answering questions to earning points to ask more questions can become a little self-serving, even though it has the motive of creating a type of points-based information economy.
Yahoo! Answers is perhaps best known for the fact that Dr Stephen Hawking (author of "A Brief History of Time") posted his question "How Can The Human Race Survive The Next Hundred Years?"
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About
the Author:
Andrew Wee is an Asia-based Internet Marketer focused on blogging, social traffic generation and affiliate marketing. Previously rated as one of Asia's top technology journalists, Andrew covers breaking news and industry developments at WhoIsAndrewWee.com
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