Yahoo! Answers (Formerly known as Yahoo! Q & A) is a community-driven question-and-answer (Q&A) site launched by Yahoo! on July 5, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users. The site gives members the chance to earn points as a way to encourage participation and is based onNaver's Knowledge iN. Yahoo! Answers is available in 12 languages, but several Asian sites operate a different platform which allows for non-Latin characters. The platform is known asYahoo! Chiebukuro (Yahoo!知恵袋) in Japan, and Yahoo! Knowledge in Korea, Taiwan, China, and Hong Kong. An Arabic language Q&A platform calledSeen Jeem is available through the Yahoo! subsidiary Maktoob.
Yahoo! Answers was created to replace Ask Yahoo!, their former Q&A platform which was discontinued in March 2006.
Yahoo! Answers is the second most popular Q&A site in the US after Answers.com, according to comScore.
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