Answers.com users can view relevant questions and answers - both specific questions and topic-related categories - from Yahoo! Answers directly on Answers.com's own pages. In addition, users can click directly to Yahoo! Answers to ask any question.
Caveat emptor! Look for content from Yahoo Answers results in the right rail. For example:
+ A search for Akron, OH, has a discussion of who will win the Akron football game tomorrow? When is tomorrow?
+ A result for anthrax, the disease, also brings back Yahoo Answers for and about the band.
+ A search for Wal-Mart stores (with company info, history) provides numerous Yahoo Answers not relating directly to the topic but more about specific products.
+ A search for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation provides Yahoo Answers results that have no citations (that's something that make Answers.com so useful, quality resources) including some very negative comments about Mrs. Gates and the her family.
UPDATE: It appears that the Yahoo Answer module for this search has been removed as of 11/21/2006.
+ A Result for George Bush, a biblical scholar who lived from 1796-1859, has Yahoo Answers about the current president of the United States.
In other Answers.com news, look for new content from the following sources. In some cases, we found it a challenge to find out who has provided the actual content that Answers.com is just added. New on Answers.com:
+ American Foreign Policy - Concepts, themes, large ideas, significant movements, and distinctive policies in the history of American foreign relations (e.g., African Americans, Department of Defense...)
+ Encyclopedia of Intelligence - A modern encyclopedia offering immediate value by emphasizing matters of espionage, intelligence, and security most frequently in the news (e.g., Al-Qaeda (Also Known as Al-Qaida), Genetic Technology, Remote Sensing...)
+ Encyclopedia of American History - More than 4000 facts, events, trends, and policies of American history (e.g., Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Deaf in America, Wal-Mart...)
+ People's Chronology - A Year-by-Year Record of Human Events from Prehistory to the Present. (e.g., Antiquity, Prehistory, 1001...)
+ Cities of the United States - A one-stop source for all the vital information you need on 189 of America's top cities (e.g., Albany, Washington, D.C., New York...)
+ Contemporary Fashion - Information on and assessment of fashion designers active during the period from 1945 to the present (e.g., Badgley Mischka, Gucci, Klein, Calvin...)
+ Recipes of the World - More than 700 recipes representing 57 countries (e.g., Almond Kisses, Deviled Eggs, Makubi...)
+ Foods of the World - Comprehensive look into the dietary lifestyles of many of the world's people (e.g., Argentina, Greece, Mexico...)
Again, knowing the precise source (does Answers.com now have its own research and writing team) would be helpful.
3d mapping enthusiasts around the world can now install Virtual Earth 3d. Version 1.1 was released over the weekend which fixed a bug in certain international markets.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
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