Link: Yahoo! UK Answers. Yahoo is launching their very popular answers service in the UK, and it's already proving popular. In common with the .com version they've got a celebrity to ask a question - Jonathan Ross 'If mankind wipes itself out, what species will become the dominant life form, and why?' There are currently 360 answers, ranging from the serious (rats or cockroaches) to the silly (Z list celebrities). Yahoo is getting a different celebrity to ask a different question (obviously!) each week for the next 8 weeks.
It's going to be interesting to see how the UK version develops over time, and how it differs from the .com version (which, from my experience, is rampantly homophobic and rabidly right wing Christian fundamentalist). Of course, if you don't like it, there's always Google Answers, Answerbag, Wondir, Ask Philosophers, Otavo, or any of the others that I'm sure are out there.
And if that doesn't work either, why don't you give Yedda (http://yedda.com) a try.
I believe that you will find the experience on Yedda quite different in several aspects, mainly on the fundamentally better signal-to-noise ratio.
Posted by: Yaniv Golan | September 07, 2006 at 05:04 PM