When using the internet to find information, people usually search for answers, not keywords. For example, when you want to know why people burp, you’d probably Google “Why do we burp?” and not “Reasons for burping.”
There is a wealth of information that can be found on the internet today. But search engines like Google are keywords-based. Thus, it is imperative to know how to properly utilize a search engine like Google. Otherwise, a person can spend hours just looking for an answer to a simple question.
So for simple day-to-day questions, it would be more practical to go to community-driven websites to give you useful answers. There are many websites which harness people’s collective knowledge like Questionville, WikiAnswers, Ask MetaFilter, Answerbag, Blurtit and Yahoo! Answers, among others.
There are small differences among these websites, but their concept is basically the same: a user can ask a question about anything under the sun. Other users can then submit answers to that question.
While there are users who offer irrelevant responses, there are many other users whose answers are actually helpful. To manage the quality of the replies, Answer sites usually let other users rank the appropriateness of the responses. With more established sites like Yahoo! Answers, the dangers of getting an erroneous answer is kept to a bare minimum, thanks to a self-policing community.
To see how an Answer site like Yahoo! Answers works, check out the video below.
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