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Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian’s worst nightmare.

December 7, 2007

Why Yahoo! Answers is a librarian’s worst nightmare.
When it does battle on the Web, Google rarely loses. Last year’s closure of Google Answers, however, marked a rare setback for the search giant. An even bigger shock is that Yahoo! succeeded where Google failed. Yahoo! Answers—a site where anyone can post a question in plain English, including queries that can’t be answered by a traditional search engine—now draws 120 million users worldwide, according to Yahoo!’s internal stats. The site has compiled 400 million answers, all searchable in its…

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