Yahoo owns other key social media sites such as Flickr, Delicious and Yahoo Answers.
Yahoo Answers, flickr and Groups are all interesting assets that have seen better days but could still be resurrected.
Contrast this with Yahoo Answers, which has been overrun by inane questions and equally inane answers (How is babby formed, anyone?).
The site comes with integrated maps and a Yahoo Answers-style question-and-advice feature.
Dan Peters, head of Yahoo Answers, said in a statement that the company tries to guide users to helpful answers through a rating system.
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Topics are created by users and continually revised and updated so that similar topics are unified to avoid the kind of answer bloat that befell Yahoo Answers and Answers.com.
" Responding to a question about "Twilight" on a Yahoo Answers page, a reader wrote, "I never quit reading a book because I think the style of writing is bad.
Yahoo says this is a first step in interactive initiatives for the 2012 Presidential elections, which also includes crowdsourcing materials through Yahoo Answers (asking questions for the candidates pre-debate) and Flickr (uploading images that best represent the state of the country).
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Others like Yahoo's Answers generate a lot of traffic but have drawn mixed reviews on the quality of answers.
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Facebook has a rival project going called Answers and Yahoo!
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