| Tuesday, January 16, 2007 |
| Yahoo launches Ask the Planet |
Ask the Planet. Ask Yahoo. Interesting, right? Yahoo India has unveiled an initiative christened 'Ask The Planet 2007'on Yahoo! India Answers. Ask the Planet is an open forum deigned to provide answers and opinions to questions relating to socially relevant issues in the Indian subcontinent, said a report.
The initiative, kick-started for Yahoo India by President Kalam, will feature questions from prominent personalities, around global issues of concern, in several categories. The forum aims at providing collective knowledge of the Yahoo! Answers community. This, the company explains, is because Yahoo!'s world audience is a great medium to build awareness for the causes that matter most to the global community.
According t the company top brass, Yahoo India aims to bring all available information on to a single platform, to upload and share with other people online. The idea is to create collective intelligence and participate in the spirit of sharing knowledge, with the help of Web 2.0, they added.
The Ask The Planet series is expected to provide an innovative platform for millions of Indians based on their real life experiences, to answer some of the biggest questions that touch their lives. The new type of search would allow more casual questions because it is not based on an algorithmic search. This new trend is called Social knowledge media on a Web 2.0 platform.
Yahoo India has said that the user-uploaded answers would be rated according to relevance. The best answers will get rewarded by the company too. In order to upload a question or answer on Ask the Planet 2007, one has to be a registered user of Yahoo, but unregistered users may view the questions and answers for free, on the Yahoo! India answers site. The company now plans to introduce Yahoo! Answers in different Indian languages too.Labels: Tech |
| posted by a correspondent @ 10:58 AM |
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