Askville
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Askville is a user-driven research site run by Amazon.com. Unlike the recently defunct Google Answers service, Askville is designed to run much like a computer game. A user gains points, in the form of coins, by asking and answering questions, and by voting on the worth of an answer. The user can then use these coins as rewards, to obtain more coins or to exert voting influence on the answers. These coins are promised to also be able to be used on the forthcoming Amazon.com Questville site.
[edit] See also
- Wikipedia:Reference desk
- Google Answers
- Guru.com
- Yahoo! Answers
- Wondir [1]
- Ask Metafilter [2]
- askquestions.org [3]
[edit] External Links
People: Jeff Bezos | Rick Dalzell | Brian Valentine
Websites: A9.com | Alexa Internet | Askville | CDNOW | Internet Movie Database | Joyo.com | Mobipocket
Services: Amazon E-Commerce Service | Amazon Marketplace | Amazon Mechanical Turk
Other: Amazon Fishbowl | Amazon Standard Identification Number | Statistically Improbable Phrases
Annual Revenue: $10.71 billion USD (2006) | Employees: 13,900 (2006) | Stock Symbol: NASDAQ AMZN | Website: www.amazon.com