October 5, 2009 at 7:32 am
Did you know?
Great news! Since we launched Yahoo! Answers, more than 1 billion questions and answers have been posted from across the world. It’s a huge number. But the way we see it, it’s a true testimony of how great a community-driven knowledge website Answers is.
Did you know:
- The Answers community counts more than 179 million users. That’s more than half the population of the United States!
- Yahoo! Answers is available in 26 markets and 12 languages. From English to Japanese, we’ve got you covered!
- Every day, around 15 million users visit the site. That’s how many people visit Disneyland every year!
As we strive to make Answers the biggest and best source to find and share information, we always welcome your feedback and comments. Please continue visiting our blog for announcements and advice on how to make the best out of Answers. We thank all of you for helping us reach that landmark.
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This is actually pretty cool to know because I’ve always wondered how many questions have been asked on here. Good job.
It’s true that Yahoo answers was at one time
a hot website that was right up at the top of
the lists with a bullet, but that has been a while
ago … due to the fact that the yahoo staff do
not really listen to the public and have spent the
majority of their time screwing around with
“appearances” instead of addressing the real
issues and writing these “self congratulatory”
blogs that are all about patting themselves on
the back
“Yahoo Answers” is going
the way of “Myspace”
I cannot think of any clearer example of the triumph of quantity over quality than Yahoo Answers being able to say “over 1 Billion served”. What are the actual answers like? A quarter billion IDK’s; half a billion wannabe comedians typing anything but a straight answer; a quarter billion trolls bullying people on this site or using it as a pulpit from which to delver rant after rant that opportunity denies them in “real life”. Not even CLOSE to a useful site, except for keeping certain types off the street and out of trouble.
Well, You have to admit, Yahoo Answers is very resourceful and has a good community taking patrol.
People can now easily comprehend things on the new and it makes other people’s lives easier.
Every year has been a great year for Yahoo! Answers, lets just hope next year is better.
wow…how long has yahoo answers been here again?
i thought more than 1 billion questions and answers are posted on yahoo answers daily??
Quantity over quality is the plague on Yahoo Answers.
maybe you could provide a service where you can re-categorize questions put in the wrong category. i think that would be really useful. thanks for doing all you have done to improve yahoo answers!
How many of those were “Am I pregnant” questions?
If you think about it, that’s not an accomplishment. That’s an EPIC FAIL. I mean seriously, if 179 million users are on here. That means that 179 million users have absolutely nothing to do with their life then to ask and answer questions.
Yahoo Aws is amazing service. My daily crunch
179 million users? I’m guessing that 50% of them are trolls.
The amount of usable and valuable answers on this site are not nearly the amount that they should be.
The process of reporting site abusers and trolls is as slow as getting a license at the DMV. Also, Why does a question remain in the category list when it’s been deleted or removed? It just makes the questions more difficult to navigate through.
lol, i’ve always wondered…
Wow, in 4 years Yahoo has had 1 billion questions asked — thats approximately 1/1000 of what Obama wants to waste to force Americans into Obama “Care”
Wow,as I’m reading through all the comments on this blog I see many people say negative things..But what about all the fun you had on this site? Yahoo Answer is and always will be one of my favourite sites and I’m pretty sure at least 3/4 of all answers on questions are adequate and correct. Of course you also have the trolls and haters, but that’s just the down side of allowing people to have free speech..In one way it’s comforting being able to ask and answer whatever question you want, but the flipside is that some stupid people take advantage of that freedom. YA should be much more strict regarding this matter.
YA is a great site, let’s hope it won’t lose it’s entertainment and knowledge, because that’s what it’s all about. So let’s hope that YA will remain like this.
The main issue I have been having is some people go completely off topic, or just answer I don’t know. Some people even try to fill up sections with a bunch of questions that are not even questions
examples
I asked a question about a sick hamster I had and the only answer I got was: awww You have a hamster
wrestling section is the worst:
I had people ask questions like : do you like eggs\kittens\ etc with anything imaginable
Those are just some reasons why I stopped asking a lot of questions since I started coming here a couple of years ago.It used to be a site where people talked about there experiences, now it became who can ask\answer the stupidest things around. I for one wish it was back the way it was when we had proffessionnal people asking\answering proffessionnal answers. Sorry for getting a bit steamed up but it is annoying when you ask something and you do not get a half decent answer
“Answers community counts more than 179 million users”
- You must be counting users who have multiple accounts, inactive accounts, and deleted accounts. I’m the only one in my circle of friends to even bother with Y!A.
“Every day, around 15 million users visit the site”
- What’s your source? According to compete.com, Yahoo! Answers gets 37 million unique visitors per month or about 1.2 million per day.
Further, comScore has ALL of Yahoo at about 150 million unique visitors per month (compete.com says 140 million). That’s all Yahoo, but Answers traffic represents a small fraction (Alexa says 1.7%, Hitwise says 1.03%).
“We strive to make Answers the biggest and best source”
- How can it be the best with so much hate, spam, and trolling? You can start to improve Answers by being honest and then listening to good users.
Yahoo Answers is the greatest website ever.
Very informative information..Always wondered how many users and how many questions have been asked.
Hopefully, this website will be around for a long long time because it’s one of the most helpful/unique sites there is or ever was.
Do you also have statistics on:
How many legitimate questions were targeted by trolls and deleted?
How many appeals you have blown off?
How many complaints there are about the woeful Customer Service?
How many accounts have been suspended for no reason?
These statistics would interest me since Y Answers is always ready to toot their own horn but the reality is that you all do nothing more than make these unnecessary cosmetic changes while ignoring the true problems on this site. I’m sorry but I don’t share your overinflated view of Yahoo Answers. Fix the issues that the consumers have begged you to fix for years and I might come back.
“What’s your source? According to compete.com…”
Ever think that just maybe Yahoo! has their own way of measuring metrics? I mean, they’re a pretty big web company and all… Alexa is also a meaningless source, because they only count people who have the Alexa toolbar installed. I don’t know a single person who has that in their browser.
“You can start to improve Answers by being honest”
That’s a pretty rude thing to say. What makes you think they’re not being honest? Because you think you know better? Pro tip: you don’t know better.
It is really great. Feeling proud to be a part of Yahoo Answers.
Congrats Yahoo! Answer.
I stumbled upon this site while doing an online search in 2007 and has actively participated since.
1 billion questions! wow. But I wonder how many are repeat questions, chats and troll questions? Out of 10 question, I normally see only 2 truly original and useful questions.
y!answers is most visited by me than the other sites.
That’s a fantastic and very commendable achievement.
Clearly Yahoo did not research its own Answers site before making bold, pointless statistical statements. The majority of the questions are about hair, makeup, personal problems and do my homework for me.
Hardly a community-driven knowledge website.
“Quantity over quality is the plague on Yahoo Answers.”
How many of those Questions remain in the knowledge database? For the English portals, it’s 78,517,836, Spanish = 15,590,055, Portuguese = 6,256,445, French = 4,322,819, German = 1,215,355, etc., so about 1/10th of the “billion” remain. If it were really Quantity over Quality, all of the billion would remain.
“That means that 179 million users have absolutely nothing to do with their life then to ask and answer questions.”
How many times a day do you go to the bathroom? Does that mean you have “absolutely nothing to do with” your life than go to the bathroom?
“According to compete.com, Yahoo! Answers gets 37 million unique visitors per month or about 1.2 million per day.”
You only allow each unique visitor to visit once per month? There’s nothing at all that keeps all 37 million from visiting every day, but, each of them is still only 1 unique visitor per month. What evidence, other than “voodoo math” do you have there are not 15 million per day?
Answers does have some problems, but, they are being addressed, and, for a free site, it’s good, and getting better.
” … listening to good users.
Comment posted on October 5th, 2009 at 6:42 pm by Pastor Fireball (((STFU)))”
What sort of “good user” has a disguised profanity as part of their username?
no $hit sherlock
That is a huge number but I’m not suprised.
Yahoo Answers is so helpful because it’s free and you have a high chance of getting a perfect answer with most of your questions.
It’s really helped me with my gcse info.
Good to know!
B: “The majority of the questions are about hair, makeup, personal problems and do my homework for me.”
I’m a Top Contributor in the History section, so I know what you are talking about when you say that most people want help with their homework. I understand if it’s a difficult subject for some, but some easy web searching will give most people the answer they are looking for without much effort.
Sometimes I will stumble upon answers that list a question and a set of multiple choice answers to go with it.
Nothing irks me more then when someone is willing to have other people do their homework for them. Asking someone for information regarding one aspect of their question is one thing, but it’s their assignment, not mine.
Sometimes I find the replies amusing, entertaining, a way to pass some time. I go to this mostly as a time filler, it’s not like you win a prize or anything. lol.I like to feel I help someone at times in the input and first hand experience of some serious sounding questions.
I’ll give the site this much for sure, this is unique online. I haven’t found other than answers or ask! sites that let you tell your input as opinions in forum format. I feel ppl mostly read the input on y!a only.
Good 2 know but not surprised. I don’t think Yahoo Answers is that helpful, too much rude and ignorant people on here these days.
So my question is this: If Yahoo! Answers is doing so fantastically, why am I frequently getting the “Yahoo! Answers is unavailable” page? This is happening every other time I go to submit an answer. Where’s the breakdown?
You asked for suggestions, so, here is one:
How about allowing a person to “switch off” questions they don’t want to fool with. Similar to what happens when you thumbs down an answer. It disappears with only the answerer’s data showing. I would think the same thng could be done to “customize” your question list.
I think that is very nice. I am very proud to be a part of the Yahoo Answers gang, I mean crowd, I mean something. Have a good day Yamster and thank-you. Truly, Susan D. Snavely
…”more than 1 billion questions and answers”
How many unique questions?
Each question can have many answers. Polls & Surveys is just an example.
I don’t understand how the quantity of answers asked matters. There are near enough 7 billion, 6.792, people on this planet, do you see everybody behaving themselves, does everybody contribute positively? It’s always those who have done what’s asked of them that are the ones penalised.
Tell, Y!A, how many accounts have you suspended for no legitimate reasons? 10 – 20 million? Today, mine became one of those statistics you fail to mention. I ‘was’ a Top Contributor in History, I had a Best Answer percentage of 43 – 44 and I had done nothing wrong. During the period in time my account was open, I had only ever received two Violation Orders, one I take responsibility for and the other, well, again pathetic.
Maybe, I’m echoing Simon, the other commenter here, when you guys get your acts together I’ll make another account. You’re losing people who give a damn and are opening your arms to trolls.
Good luck, and so long. Answers isn’t what it used to be.