Facebook jumps on the Metafilter Bandwagon with
New Q&A Offering.
Other recent entrants in our market include
Ask.com, which is relying on experts to answer questions,
Aardvark which asks your friends to do the work, and our favorite love-to-hate-em, Yahoo
answers which is teaming with both terrible (hilarious)
questions and answers.
The Facebook offering will be totally public and searchable by google, with questions answerable by anyone with a Facebook account. It looks like the questions you ask will be tied to your real profile.
Anyone in the Beta have a screen shot?
posted by paddingtonb
on Jul 28, 2010 -
68 comments
Google has released an experimental search tool,
Google Squared, that presents search results in the form of a table. Each column represents some attribute or dimension of the things returned - for example, searching for
US presidents yields a column for date of birth, and rows for Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, etc.
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posted by Zarkonnen
on Jun 5, 2009 -
70 comments
Stack Overflow is now out of beta. Designed as a question and answer forum for programmers, it's been made to fill the gap currently filled by sites like the much hated and oft mispronounced
Expertsexchange. If you're sick of having to
scroll to the bottom, and you write code, then this could be for you. The site has been made by a team headed by
Jeff Atwood and
Joel Spolsky. These are two uber-bloggers who've made a name for themselves talking about how to code. Of course, for haters of Stack Overflow, there are already a
couple of
sites to pamper to your anger. Finally, if you're wondering what a
stack overflow is, then wikipedia has the answer.
posted by seanyboy
on Sep 15, 2008 -
51 comments
Pourquoi? "Les petites enigmes de tous les jours" - Interesting site akin to AskMe, "en Français."
posted by AllesKlar
on Dec 12, 2005 -
21 comments
justcurio.us AskMeFi for the curious masses. Not nearly as helpful, but can be amusing.
posted by o2b
on Jul 19, 2005 -
19 comments
Science Times: 25th Anniversary The first issue of Science Times[weekly section of
N.Y. Times] appeared 25 years ago, on Nov. 14, 1978. Its guiding principle ever since has been that science is not a collection of answers, but a way of asking questions, an enterprise driven by curiosity. To celebrate the anniversary, we pose 25 of the most provocative questions facing science. As always, answers are provisional. [free reg req'd]
posted by Postroad
on Nov 11, 2003 -
2 comments
