2006-07-05 19:01:21 · 5 answers · asked by WfD 2 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
Probably close to nothing or a negative amount. They have decided, for the time being, to include almost no ads. Actually, I think it's exactly zero, since I can't really seem to find an ad. They have a slight bit more reach with the search engine hits from the Q&A here, but I don't really see any other sources of revenue.
On the other hand, they have costs of employees, servers, the whole Ask the Planet promo, and so on. It's probably a way for them to drum up more traffic and sort of compete with Google Answers because they have to do that sort of thing. If it's a negative profit, you should be paying to using it, but it's free.
2006-07-06 03:40:56 · answer #1 · answered by Arbitrage 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually it costs thousands of dollars every day to maintain Yahoo! Answers open.
They hope in the future it will be a Billion Dollar Business but it will take several years to get there.
There are very few ads on Yahoo! Answers.
Also if you want to get a small cut of the profits Yahoo! makes just buy some Yahoo! shares.
If you don't know how just ask!
2006-07-06 02:36:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well since there is minimal advertising on the pages of yahoo answers and there is no advertising allowed from askers and answerers they make very little. Realistically it is a write off for them as it is a service and they make very little I would assume...
If anything they should pay us to have our email... since we are
bombarded with their advertising every time we use it ... :)
2006-07-06 02:33:52 · answer #3 · answered by mallicoatdd 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah they should pay, but the problem is how to implement that. I think they should do something like a lotto and to give you a ticket for each answer that you give
2006-07-06 02:47:13 · answer #4 · answered by drchristian 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It`s free.
2006-07-06 02:05:26 · answer #5 · answered by J.SWAMY I ఇ జ స్వామి 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋