Why do people insist on asking questions on Yahoo Answers that are easily found in 2 minutes using Google?

Answer 1

you get answer from people with experience. Google does not have experience. It gives you sites with people with experience.

Answer 2

Not to mention--aside from the social contacts--that your more common search engines, like Yahoo's and Google's, have serious limits on *how much* you can narrow a search. Google restricts you to ten terms total, and while Yahoo doesn't have an explicit restriction, what it *does* have is a bad habit of *giving up* lately if you a) use quotes in a proper name or phrase, or b) if you try to use the Toolbar function to search *from* specific sites (like here on Answers, for example).

In both cases, what this means is that you *can't*, as in cannot, make a search specific enough to *exclude* all of the spam and irrelevant results the engines *cough up*. If you try on Yahoo, you go over the hidden limit and get "no results", on Google, you just get more spam pages than what you can possibly exclude under the 10-term limit.

In other words, it's become a hassle. A contrary, frustrating experience. Half the time anymore when you do a search, you get *lots* of spam pages that exploit "Best of..." lists and such to snag as many searches as possible. And this does not inculde some of the dirty tactics that p0rn sites will use (lists, cookies, the works) to snag you.

It's become a complete, spam-laden, obnoxious hassle. I don't know *how* the folks at Yahoo Inc. and elsewhere manage to run these *super clean* searches that have no spam on the first page, and then make them linkable. I have no idea, because for me it doesn't happen. With any given search I enter manually, I am *lucky* if 50% (HALF) of the results are relevant, and non-spam. The more usual percentage is 20-25%.

So yeah, one more time. *It's a damned HASSLE*. *lol* ^_^

And for the most part, you're dealing with younger users, asking *Opinion* sorts of Questions that aren't easily answered in a *single* search. Or they seek Answers *so* specific and factual that a Search Engine does no good.

Or in some cases, you're dealing with people who can't type or spell coherently worth a damn, and so they really can't get a search engine to work out for them. They "need" folks to interpret the gibberish that some people call Questions. -_-

And that pretty solidly covers it. ^_^ Thanks for your time!

Answer 3

I agree with pretty much everyone else, but also you'd be surprised how many don't know how to use a search engine properly. Do you ever notice how many of the questions are so poorly typed and phrased? Some people just don't know the first thing about how to go about finding out a piece of information on the internet. Oh well.

Answer 4

Because people like to communicate with others and get the opinions of other people. Computers are not real people there for google does not give valid opinions that real people do.

Answer 5

I guess because googling something isn't nearly half the fun as a variety of answers from around the world.

Answer 6

Because we're lazy and Yahoo Answers is personalized.

Answer 7

To see what people think and the different opinions on things.

Answer 8

Because they're bored, and asking questions to a search engine doesn't thrill them.

Answer 9

People want opinions more than they do fact in alot of these questions.

Answer 10

because it's more fun because it's almost like a social activity where there are real people.
but yeah, i don't understand it. it's pretty much just a waste of points.