Some of the q's fair enough, from kids or genuinely hard to find advice on buying things etc. But many quetions on yahoo answers can be answered by reading a few web pages! Are folk just lazy?!
2006-09-02 02:49:40 · 14 answers · asked by jennymilluk 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
Lazy? No. The purpose of Yahoo! Answers is the sense of community, entertainment, and information. Sure, there are answers to questions on Google, but they are dry and non-interactive.
2006-09-02 03:12:47 · answer #1 · answered by OU812 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well, for some of the questions that you could ask on google, such as: "anybody know a funny website" when you could type in "comedy" or something on google, you get peoples opinions as opposed to a list of websites to trawl through
Sorry if the syntax came across a bit weird, I'm hungover :D
2006-09-02 02:53:57 · answer #2 · answered by anto687 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not only that, you can ask the search bar in Y!A a question, and a lot of times find the answer covered in much detail. I can't tell you how many times I've seen the same question over and over and over again. "how do i buy a car" just punch it in, I've answered at least a dozen times, and ignored 5 times as many that were answered pretty well.
2006-09-02 03:12:56 · answer #3 · answered by Manny 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Some people do not know how to use search engines properly or may be just confused by all the links. Yes, I'd say basically lazy - but it's more fun to ask a real person or persons!
2006-09-02 02:52:57 · answer #4 · answered by Owlwings 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well I enjoy looking stuff up on google, however, if you look at the language used, a lot of the questioners are not able to string a coherent sentence together and google would just throw up gobbledegook.
2006-09-03 04:51:15 · answer #5 · answered by Amanda K 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they do that for 2 resons.
1 of them is to help u get some points, develop ur mind and hav something to do.
2 an advice from every body worth much more than something u just find by reading somethin cuz u can even forget immediately after u read it but u can always reamember an advice. by the way t4dp
2006-09-02 02:56:26 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
spot on, someone asked where to buy a valence sheet a while ago. i think some of the people on here don't know where their front door is. yahoo search, google or just take a walk in the town centre.
2006-09-02 02:55:44 · answer #7 · answered by DAVID H 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes its easier to ask a question, rather than wade through google result pages that were designed to generate adwords revenue instead of providing information.
2006-09-02 02:54:25 · answer #8 · answered by Process Guy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sometimes when I use search engines they get completely the wrong idea and never give me what I want. No computer is as good as another fellow human being - yet.
2006-09-06 00:13:00 · answer #9 · answered by Helen B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
are they?
google? what is this "phenomenon" that goes by so simple a name? is it truly all you say it is? my goodness! you must be the smartest girl in the world to know so much! i mean, "google".
you must have gone to college!
2006-09-02 03:28:42 · answer #10 · answered by ybstrait 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋