02 February 2009
If you're looking for answers on the net, you're already spoilt for choice and now yet another name has been added to the world of online Q&A sites. With Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha and dozens more providing online answer services, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has added one more site to the mix.
Wales hopes to provide a wiki-style question and answer site that aims to create one true, consensus answer for each question.
If the new programme sounds familiar, it's because Wiki Answers, which is part of Answers.com, provides the same service. According to comScore, Wiki Answers had 26.7 million viewers worldwide in December, while Yahoo Answers saw about 144.7 million worldwide users in December.
Influential industry news site TechCrunch reports that there have been some issues surrounding the name of the new site. Screen shots from the website show the site is supposed to be called Wikia Answers!, but the current logo currently shows the last "a" of Wikia sharing the first "a" of Answers, making it Wikianswers. If you type 'wikiaanswers' into Firefox you are directed to WikiAnswers, however if you type 'wikia answers' into a Google search appears with Wales' offering as the top result.
Built from the same wiki platform offered by Wikia, Wikianswers is currently being promoted from Wikia Search. For many search engines, creating a searchable Q&A function is a natural add-on, and we recently reported on Mahalo Answers, another new Q&A service on the web.
Wales will have to work hard to make Wikianswers stand out from other sites that offer the same services. And Wikia CEO Gil Penchina said: "Wikia's Q&A service is in keeping with the wiki-way, and that's what makes it different. The content is freely licensed under GFDL unlike other answers sites, allowing it to be re-used and re-purposed by others for free." Can Jimmy do it? If he can it might give Wikia Search a bit of a boost in the process.
Wikia wants some of the answers business
If you're looking for answers on the net, you're already spoilt for choice and now yet another name has been added to the world of online Q&A sites. With Yahoo Answers, WikiAnswers, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, ChaCha and dozens more providing online answer services, Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales has added one more site to the mix. Wales hopes to provide a wiki-style question and answer site that aims to create one true, consensus answer for each question.
If the new programme sounds familiar, it's because Wiki Answers, which is part of Answers.com, provides the same service. According to comScore, Wiki Answers had 26.7 million viewers worldwide in December, while Yahoo Answers saw about 144.7 million worldwide users in December.
Influential industry news site TechCrunch reports that there have been some issues surrounding the name of the new site. Screen shots from the website show the site is supposed to be called Wikia Answers!, but the current logo currently shows the last "a" of Wikia sharing the first "a" of Answers, making it Wikianswers. If you type 'wikiaanswers' into Firefox you are directed to WikiAnswers, however if you type 'wikia answers' into a Google search appears with Wales' offering as the top result.
Built from the same wiki platform offered by Wikia, Wikianswers is currently being promoted from Wikia Search. For many search engines, creating a searchable Q&A function is a natural add-on, and we recently reported on Mahalo Answers, another new Q&A service on the web.
Wales will have to work hard to make Wikianswers stand out from other sites that offer the same services. And Wikia CEO Gil Penchina said: "Wikia's Q&A service is in keeping with the wiki-way, and that's what makes it different. The content is freely licensed under GFDL unlike other answers sites, allowing it to be re-used and re-purposed by others for free." Can Jimmy do it? If he can it might give Wikia Search a bit of a boost in the process.
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