When comparing Ask Jeeves vs Yahoo! Answers, the Slant community recommends Yahoo! Answers for most people. In the question“What are the best Q&A websites for subjective questions?” Yahoo! Answers is ranked 35th while Ask Jeeves is ranked 36th.
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Con Search Engine
Answers are resolved by means of a search engine rather than a community. This means that answers are found through simple search algorithms rather than based on knowledge / researched answers, so you're likely to get a number of false matches.
An example: The site includes a Question of the Day
; today's being What makes up 60% of the human Brain?
. Clicking Get the Answer
gives you a correct answer Sixty percent of the human brain is made up of fat..
However, type (better yet, copy & paste) that exact same question into their own search bar, and you'd be led to believe that the correct answer was water.
Con Closed (mostly) - only an unaffiliated Japanese version remains online
Con Very low quality of answers
Highly unreliable answers - often the answer doesn't even properly address the question.
Con Yahoo! account required
Both asking and answering questions require a Yahoo! account.
Con Single answer picked randomly as "Best answer"
The window to answer question - and to rate answers - is very short, the website will just close the question and designate a "best answer'" randomly.