MSN launches QnA

yet another Korean knowledge search engine! woot!

[GrendelKhan TSU]

lookie!

MSN is doing the Korean "knowledge search" thing too!
lol. gooo k-power! lol
[qna.live.com...]

as you know from my blah blah over the years...
at least, three of the major portals in Korea have been doing for years (*Naver . com being the biggest and first) ...

and now Yahoo US is doing it with Answers (based off the Yahoo Korea version), and now MSN QnA... who's next?

we gunna see Google Answers come back in a "free and open" form? (btw, anyone else find it slightly ironic that google had the only paid-for version?)

[bill]

How close are the English services compared to their Korean predecessors? Do we finally have working English versions of the Knowledge search you've been talking about all these years?

[GrendelKhan TSU]

yahoo answers is much closer...

at quick glace, this looks much more a stripped down version. not surprising though...looks as though they will ease in more robust features (as they did with answers).

step-by-step.

[bill]

You mean more of the user profile aspects? I think that was the most viral aspects of that service. Even I got caught up in it for a while. It was a lot of fun actually. (Yahoo Answers)

What aspects are missing compared to the Korean version?

[GrendelKhan TSU]

haven't looked too close at it yet...
but yah..the profile aspects and INCENTIVE (like earning points or reputation type thing) seem to jump out at me first.

I'll delve into it more later and let ya konw. ;)

[edited by: GrendelKhan_TSU at 11:53 am (utc) on Jan. 28, 2007]