Why should I use Yedda and not Yahoo anwers?

Yahoo Answers is a great service, if you're comfortable with it by all means go ahead and use it.

Yedda is designed to make knowledge exchange easy, efficient and (gasp!) fun.

We believe that if you have a question, you should be able to ask it. So go ahead and ask as many questions as you need to - you won't find yourself limited by credits or points.

We also feel that when you have a question, you should be able to ask it even if you're not sure which category out of 200 categories it fits under. So we made it real easy to tell us what are the topics of your question, using free form tagging (i.e. topics).

But even tagging, while an improvement over "directory trees" (e.g. Taxonomies) is not always that easy. Which is why we invest a lot of effort in understanding what your question is about, and providing you with suggested commonly used topics. Hopefully this makes the process of asking a question as easy as possible.

And when you do send your question to Yedda, we know that as far as you're concerned, it's probably the single most important question in the world (well. Aside from "How to achieve world wide peace" of course). We don't think that questions should go into a "popularity contest", losing their place as newer questions are posted.

So, we created the Yedda Active Broker (temporary name!), which gets attached to your question the moment it is posted - a component which is rather single-mindedly obsessive about getting an answer to your question. This is the part of Yedda which is responsible for relentlessly searching through our lists of people for the right person to give you the best answer.

Plus, there is of course the ability to easily embed formatting, links and graphics in your question when needed. Hardly a must, but we just hated not being able to do that.

As for answering questions, with so many questions out there, and on so many different topics, finding that question which you'd like to answer because you think you can help out someone out there can be a rather chaotic process. For example, if you're a tax expert, and you happen to enter the system just a few days before the next Harry Potter book is out, you probably don't want to wade your way through hundreds of Harry Potter related questions. And vice versa of course

So, once you tell us what your topics of interest and knowledge are (using My Settings > My Topics), we will find these questions which we think you will be able to help with and send them directly to you (of course, you can define how many and how often, if at all). We perform the search in an associative (or "semantic") manner – for example, if you specify "Home Improvement" as your interest, we understand that you might be interested in questions related to do it yourself, power tools, etc. (and if we get it wrong, tell us, and Yedda will automatically adjust itself and will better target your interests).

There is a lot more in Yedda, and a lot more coming up. But the bottom line – we're single-mindedly serious about exchanging personal knowledge, and we are trying to make Yedda the best place for this.

And, if you comments or ideas about how we can do better, please tell us (here, or through the Feedback link, or at feedback@yedda.com).

Simple, Yahoo Ans<ers will soon be full of spam and useless answers

Yedda is still like a "virgin" answering system

Too long, you obviously are trying the character limitation on Yedda...

I tried to list major differences between Yedda and Yahoo Answers in my previous reply. Let me try to clarify my points:

From the asker point of view:

• More attention to each question – the questions you post are continuously sent to more and more relevant people for as long as you wish (i.e. until you are satisfied with the answers). This prevents the "bulletin board effect" – where older questions disappear from view when new questions are posted. So there is a better chance of getting good answers even for the harder questions or questions on less common topics.
• Easier categorization of the question using free form topics and selection from topics suggested by Yedda based on what other users used to describe similar questions
• More freedom of expression – no limitations on question length, can embed styling, graphics and links.
• Better reuse of existing answers – Yedda's associative match finds more relevant previously answered questions.
• Openness and simplicity – you can ask as many questions as you need to and as often as you need to, without regards to how many points you have – there is no points or credits or any other type of limitation on Yedda.

From the answerer point of view:

• Personalization – Yedda understands what topics you are interested in, and will continue to search for questions on these topics to deliver to you.
• Express yourself – you will be providing the answers. So, we think there should be a lot of space for you to tell everyone about yourself, starting from your profile page and continue with your tag line, a rich area where you can send your messages to the world and promote whatever is close to your heart, and which appears next to each post you make.
• Filtering – there is a lot of stuff that's happening online and offline at any given moment, requiring your attention. Yedda attempts to filter out the topics you don't care about, so that most of the questions you see are in topics you do care about.

(These are the differences you see right now. As I said in my previous post, there is a lot more coming, but, I'm sure you'll understand if we choose to keep some of these competitive differences close to our chest while we're working on finalizing them)

Another difference is that, due to resources constraints (did I hear anyone saying boot strapping?), you're probably not going to see a major PR event getting the world celebs to ask and answer questions on Yedda.

But, hopefully you are going to see Yedda growing and maturing in the hands of a team that's rather single-minded focused on providing you the best possible service for personal knowledge exchange.

Does this answer your question?