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Will Yahoo Answers huge success affect the companies value?
Yahoo's services are growing in strength and popularity, do you think this will raise the value of the stock? Could they be as big as Google? (The services are better) Are you investing in Yahoo?
Public Comments
- they're not making any money on this.
- Maybe, but I'm not investing in Yahoo.
- I hope so, I own 50.1% of Yahoo stock. Actually I just started this to know which came first the chicken or the egg.
- not really. Google had this feature for years now.
- Well you know how stock people are any little thing can change the market it depends on the perspective of the brokers I would imagine. I think it is a big success and will be properly fine tuned over the years.
- Only if they can make money from data mining this pile of ~~~~.
- i expect eventually you will have to pay to be a member, I'm not investing in yahoo, but hey, that isn't a bad idea! i think this site will be a very beneficial asset to yahoo.
- They have to monetize the use of the services somehow. Advertising, aggregated data mining, public opinion measurement, navigable "knowledge" base, whatever. Probably there are at least a couple graduate thesis projects in grammar forensics and spelling pathology - that are low hanging fruit on these services already. It is probably one of the biggest machine-readable stores of unstructured social data in history. If nothing else, it would make interesting test data for validating/invalidating algorithms. Getting some input from RAND corporation might catalyze some ideas for what Yahoo could do by combining various chunks of aggregated data to synthesize new products. At the size Yahoo is at, most statistical/logical driven sociological analysis organizations would probably think of useful applications and novel ways of presenting the data.
