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by pbreit 2182 days ago
It was kind of interesting at first when the answers were good and there were some "celeb" participants.

But seems pretty stale now with lots of lead gen answers.

They claim huge traffic numbers which could be possible given the pretty good Google placements.

I don't really get it.

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Can we go ahead and coin this the as 'The Yahoo Answers Effect' because it seems they are following in the exact same fashion. High quality question and answers, that slowly (and rapidly) devolves into SEO spam and useless commentary.