Rumors about Yahoo Answers to be Acquired by Answers.com

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It’s no secret that Yahoo Answers has been a big success for the company - it’s seeing tremendous growth and being integrated into a range other services, including Yahoo Food. They’re claiming 60 million users around the world, and it’s undoubtedly the largest Q&A site on the web. That’s surprising, because normally they’re forced to acquire successful startups - in this instance, the success was homegrown.
Today Yahoo is announcing a partnership between Yahoo Answers and Answers.com, which provides encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauruses, information from Wikipedia and more. As part of the deal, you can see relevant questions and answers from Yahoo when you’re viewing certain topics on Answers.com, or click through to ask a question over on Yahoo Answers. Answers.com already have a service in this space - Blufr is a fun widget that you can post to your blog, but they’re now also targeting MySpace users (hi5, Piczo, Friendster, Xanga and others are also supported). In particular, they’ve launched a contest to promote their embeddable “bluf-o-grams” - the prize is a makeover of your blog or social networking page. However, Blufr doesn’t compete directly with Yahoo Answers - it’s more about creating fun quizzes to share on social networks.
Answers.com already has a massive number of partnerships in place - most of their content comes from dictionaries and encyclopedias, and Answers.com is really just a service to aggregate all this info. That said, the deal does cement Yahoo Answers‘ position as the leader in the Q&A space. Amazon’s new Askville service doesn’t seem like such a good bet, although they’re doing some interesting things in the mobile space.

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wow i wonder how much they would have to pay to buy Answers.com. It wont surprise me if yahoo does buy then as they buy a lot of companies nowadays.

It makes me wonder whos job it will be to go through everyone's site merged over and make sure the answers are correct, who would do that sort of job and how long long could it take?