Will Quora Challenge Google? No. Is It Useful? Yes, Greg Sterling, Search Engine Land (Jun 22)
Here's another service where people post questions and maybe get answers. Quora - created by early Facebook engineers - is another engine for social search, answers, q&a.
It connects to Twitter and Facebook of course. No previews - must join to see if there is any action.
Google got back into this game too (remember it closed Google Answers years ago) when it bought Aardvark, another question and answer service. Racing to Fill Gaps Left by Google in the Wall Street Journal tells us Google hasn't said what it will do with Aardvark. But "spokesman Gabriel Stricker said, "We realize that sometimes you want a person not a webpage to answer your questions." .. "Mr. Stricker added that Google shares these new companies' mission of providing more authoritative answers to questions for which there may not be a lot of content online currently, citing its real-time search services and a product called Knol, which allows people to upload information about topics on which they are experts, as examples. "
Citing Knol? Does anyone use that? Does it ever come up in search results?
Posted by Gwen at June 22, 2010 11:26 PM