Feb 1, 2009
Wikianswers Launches, Public Says “Whatever”
The Question/Answer space on the web is swimming with dozens of sites that most people don’t really care about. We’ve got ChaCha, Mahalo Answers, Linkedin Answers, WikiAnswers, and Yahoo Answers, just to name a few. But it looks as though Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is primed and ready to bless the internet using populace with another.
That’s right. Wikianswers has launched. That’s with a lower-case a, mind you. It’s a Question/Answer site founded in the spirit of Highlander where there can be only one true answer for every question on the site. Just like Wikipedia.
But what’s with that name? How many Wikianswers, or is that WikiAnswers, does the internet need? They certainly sound the same at first gloss, but a quick glance at the URLs will show that one is http://answers.wikia.com and the other, http://wiki.answers.com/. I would say which one is which, respectively, but at this point, I really don’t know and I really don’t care.