http://www.networthiq.com/questions

Uclue will probably always be a tiny business compared to Google, but we believe strongly that there is a need for a paid Q&A/Research service similar to what Google Answers used to be, and we're enjoying providing that service.

Another free site to add to your list is FunAdvice
http://www.funadvice.com/ which seems to be an upbeat site with lots of young people answering each other's questions.

You might also want to add the following to your list. They provide infrastructure that allows others to run their own Answers service.

1. Tinbag - they provide an online service that allows an individual to become their own answer service, earning money from providing help and advice.
http://www.tinbag.com/

2. AskPert - Software using PHP and MySQL that can be installed on a webserver to implement an Answers Service. We started with this at Uclue and are modifying it to meet our needs better. The software costs $149, plus an extra $69 if you want to remove the link back to them, and you can freely modify it.
http://www.w3matter.com/products/askpert/

3. AskMe Pro - Another software package using PHP and MySQL that, according to its supplier, allows you to "Run your own Google Answers expert advice service". The software costs $99, and you can freely modify it.
http://www.alstrasoft.com/askme.htm

We provide a knowledge sharing community using Questions and Answers. We also provide a knowledge marketplace where people can post financial rewards for best answers.

You can view our site at http://www.askpedia.com

http://www.ebooksdb.net

Josh a few points. These are not cynical comments but comments of a reader that enjoys your posts and finds this one could have been better:

You end your post with a conclusion but there is nothing in the post, apart from a list of website! What are concluding about?

 

I think that the QA market is in a very interesting period and I think that Google’s move could call for a more interesting post than list of players in the QA market.

Here are a few of the questions and issues facing the QA website market. It would be interesting to read your opinion and the reader’s comments concerning these questions:

1. What are the success keys in the QA market


2. What players, from this impressive list, have a chance of being with us 2-3 years from now and why?


3. You basically outlined two different markets, the UGC QA websites and the expert centric QA websites. Do you think both will continue to evolve or do you see one model taking over the market?


4. What will prove to be more important in the long run, quantity or quality of answers?


5. Were does the line run between wikis and AQ websites and what are the characteristics of the typical user that would get involved in each?


6. What is really driving QA websites. Is it the thirst for knowledge or is it about economy of attention.


7. Do you see evolving semantic search engines as a threat to the QA websites. I mean what is the difference between a QA service that aggregates questions and answers and a semantic search engine (2-3 years from now) that will be able to produce search result in a QA format?

There are more questions but I think these would do for now.

Also, a general comment Josh. I find posts that cover-3-5 players more helpful and insightful. For a complete list of QA website I could use Google. What I’m looking for in RWW (my first reading each day) are editorial insights. For me you are like editors in a very chaotic web 2.0 environment. I expect you to choose and be able to say, from all those tens of player we think these 5 you should keep an eye on.

Thanks

Avi Charkham

We have also launched Facebook Answers, which provides Q&A within the Facebook community. Check it out here http://apps.facebook.com/helpshare/ (you will need a Facebook user account).

Fact: we're over 4 years old.

Fact: we're bigger than all but Yahoo Answers, Answerbag, and Askville.

Fact: we are the ONLY Q&A service that pays users.

We also have photo sharing, tagging, etc, a host of other features that don't exist elsewhere in the category? Seriously, you need help on doing your research. We're by far one of the largest sites in the Q&A space - in June, we received over 500K unique visitors.

How did you miss us?

Thanks for including Minti's Q&A area.
It is only a small part of Minti, but a very popular part :)

Clay

Vizu is a polling-widget (used by the likes of Second Life to Organic to Cozi) that lets you create a free web poll and put it on your blog, MySpace, Facebook or other social page. It's easy, can include images and is customizable to match the theme of your page or site.
http://www.vizu.com/index.html

Vizu Answers (our paid service) allows anyone to conduct do-it-yourself market research by combining an easy-to-use polling platform with a network of diverse websites.
http://answers.vizu.com/market-research.htm

Thanks for compiling the list. All the best.

-AJ

A.J. Kohn
Director of Marketing
Vizu

My current beef with them right now, though, is that the Travel sections, specifically the Lebanon and South Africa subsections (among others) are being overrun with completely off-topic "chatty" posts.

This is an issue, to me at least, because it means that people with legitimate questions about traveling or moving to those places have their answers wiped off the front page in a matter of moments -- thereby completely rendering the entire concept pointless.

Yahoo!'s answer to this: just report each post. Sigh...

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* Answer literally any question: fact, fiction or straight up silly.
* Ask Mosio anything!

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The most easy to use QA site i've ever been to.

This site has a great time ahead.

The most easy to use QA site i've ever been to.

This site has a great time ahead.