Where to Get Your Questions Answered Online

At some point, everyone has a question which they want answered. These questions may be really unfamiliar subjects, which people around you may not want to answer, or may not be able to answer. These may also be very personal or odd questions which you don't want to ask people around you in person because you're too embarrassed to do so.

There are several types of websites where you can do things like this. You can easily look up websites with professional information about your specific topic, but this is going to be a lot more time consuming and take a lot more work than going to a site where users can answer general questions just to help people.

This article will list a few of these types of sites, several of which are very popular and are still raising in popularity.

Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers is a great place to get your questions answered. In fact, I recommend this out of all question-answer websites because there are a ton of people on it, and you will almost always get an accurate response to your question within an hour or so.

You can get email updates informing you when you recieve a new answer to your question, which is extremely convenient, because you will know the answer to your question within seconds of its answering. This is great for impatient people who want answers NOW.

Users of Yahoo! Answers can earn points, gain levels, answer questions, ask questions, visit and add people's profiles, etc. This is similar to a social network, based around human knowledge and answering other people's questions. This is quite fun too, answering people's questions, earning points, and gaining popularity and levels.

The Yahoo! Answers website works because people want to earn the most points possible. Askers always choose the answer which is best, and the most relevant to their quesitons, and the user who provided that answer is going to earn more points, a higher "best answer" percentage, and look much better and credible as an answerer. This is great because it provides the system with honest, accurate answering people, meaning that you will always get the most accurate and true answers to your questions.

The only downfall is that not all people on this website know exactly what they're talking about. Something which sounds great and accurate may not truely be so. Just watch carefully who answers your questions, and check their sources if they cite any.

The website for Yahoo! Answers is www.answers.yahoo.com

Answers
This website works decently for answering questions.

The website also has a built-in dictionary, thesaurus, Encyclopedia, and much more. However, the main feature of the website that people use is just asking others questions. This is great because most of the people on this site are quite accurate as far as their answers go as well.

This website is decent, but I prefer Yahoo! Answers due to the rewards system, the level system, and the fact that you can get email updates. There are fewer users of this website, therefore answers don't come as fast.

Answers might actually be a bit more accurate on this website, however. The website for answers is just www.answers.com

Use whichever you please. Both websites are very popular, and are great for getting your personal or difficult questions answered!