How does Yedda compare to ask.com and ehow.com?
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The current incarnation ask.com is focused on searching for web pages. The previous incarnation of ask.com - AskJeeves - was known for its ability to work with natural language queries. The rest of a natural language query with AskJeeves was a list of relevant web pages.
With Yedda, you can ask your questions in natural language, but that's where the similarity to AskJeeves starts and ends. Yedda's main mission is to highlight your question to the people who may have the answers to it, and to deliver their answers to you.
Ask.com is a great search engine, go ahead and use it when you're looking for web pages. But if you're looking for an answer - personal knowledge, from real people, that fully understand your question and the responses of their peers - you're in the right place :)
While we're at it, when you ask a question, we will of course share with you the list of similar questions which were already answered through Yedda in the past. To do that, we use a semantic search, which is somewhat similar, in function if not in implementation, to the AskJeeves functionality.
eHow is a great how-to manual for quite a lot of topics. The content on eHow it staff-edited, and is quite extensive. If you're looking for a generic how-to information on a common topic, ehow is a pretty good resource for that. However, if you're looking for a how-to solution for your own specific issue with your own specific set of circumstances, Yedda might be a better place for you.
Of course, Yedda covers much more then how-to information (for example, "Is Visual Studio Tools for Applications replacing VBA" does not really fall under the how-do category :))
The search for people who can answer your question continues for as long as needed - until you find the answer you were looking for.
When an answer is posted by someone who was invited (byYedda or by yourself) to answer your question, their answer is marked with a yellow "invited by Yedda".
To be invited to answer other people's questions in your areas of knowledge and interest, be sure to list your favorite topics:
» My Settings › My Topics.
Of course, the more helpful your answers are, the more likely you are to be invited to future questions...
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To add onto that other websites which would make for a more direct comparison to Yedda would be the likes of answers.yahoo.com, blurtit.com and unasked.com
I think the main difference you'll find between all of these is the level of activity of each website and to some degree certain categories of questions will have more or less active users answering questions in them. Personally I've found Yedda to be the most useful next to yahoo's service.
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