what YAHOO will get from this. ARE(yahoo) they helping peoples by providing this or they started it for their(yahoo) own profits
2006-08-27 15:09:31 · 9 answers · asked by pwn3r 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Advertising & Marketing
Yahoo started this site purely for profit.
This can be seen by the ethos of this site. A lot of the site is used for chatty questions and discussion, rather than actual factual questions and answers. Yahoo actually encourages this because it increases the userbase of the site - which means more advertising money for them.
You can see adverts on the site. The search engine links Answers to a general Yahoo search. To get photos into this site you have to use Yahoo 360 which is a very poor blog site, really.
They've linked the site into del.icio.us which they recently acquired.
This isn't to say this is a bad thing - Yahoo is a business and it has to make money. But you have to look at the Yahoo Answers site, and it's problems, in that light.
2006-08-28 04:33:58 · answer #1 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yahoo is a business. The purpose of business is to make money. I personally like the free service I get from Yahoo though.
2006-08-27 22:15:18 · answer #2 · answered by Nelson_DeVon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Since so many people are already on Yahoo, there is already a great community and a whole lot of brainpower here.
This site is a new way to search for answers that exists on people's mind rather than complex search techniques which are on google and the normal yahoo websearch.
2006-08-27 23:27:43 · answer #3 · answered by BobKnight 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Websites, like Yahoo, want to do two things:
1. Build the best content or community tools and things to do. Stuff like News, E-mail, and Answers are all good examples. Yahoo wants to build fun, interesting, and compelling things so you keep coming back to yahoo. Why? well...
2. They sell advertising on the pages. It's how they are able to keep this stuff operating for free for people like us. Some find the web-advertising annoying (some of it definitely is annoying), but it's paying Yahoo's bills, and keeping the sites free for us.
So, Yahoo will continue to build and offer fun, interesting and compelling things so we keep coming back and coming back. It's the only way they can sell their pages to advertisers.
2006-08-28 00:32:11 · answer #4 · answered by Inseries 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Money Money Money it is all about the money in the end but hey this is fun and interesting most of the time and people are logging on to it so it is like a win win situation
2006-08-28 01:06:30 · answer #5 · answered by truely human 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please note the advertisements to the left and bottom of your screen. Then calculate the number of people who see those advertisements whilst using Yahoo! answers. Multiply by $100,000.
2006-08-27 22:12:15 · answer #6 · answered by Gabe R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most Internet sites are about money in one way or another, but that doesn't mean they can't also be helpful and interesting and fun.
2006-08-27 22:16:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its whatwe are leading up too in the future here, we think its the greatst thing around since alexx trebeck and jeopardy!! we thank you yahoo for brining our litle familt together when ever theres time to sit and try and at least help people here your great for doing it, and too ask them if there making profits you really expect us to anwser that go too the c,e o at yahho and we dare you too ask hm or her that you wil out on the street here!! thanks gain yahoo!!
2006-08-27 22:15:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
to give something to do to people who don't get out much
2006-08-27 22:15:59 · answer #9 · answered by Roxy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋