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AskThemAll.com

 Post your question on many Q&A sites at once
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Post a question and specify its topic on AskThemAll.com and it will automatically post your question on many different Q&A sites:

Yahoo Answers, Mahalo Answers, Answers.com, AllExperts.com, etc.

AskThemAll.com will then email you a link when someone answers your question. ----------

Specify your expertise in a particular topic and AskThemAll will aggregate questions in your chosen topic for you to answer.

—goodmars, Jan 17 2009

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       Great idea. I used to use Yahoo, but normally not enough people came up with the same answer to make it worthwhile.
—up_on_cloud_nine, Jan 17 2009
   

       So everytime I search for something I get a half dozen duplicate hits? No thanks.
—phoenix, Jan 17 2009
   

       There can be only one.
—Spacecoyote, Jan 17 2009
   

       Thanks Spacecoyote. You've given us the missing half.   

       The answer providing websites would have to enter into a contract with AskThemAll. If AskThemAll poses them a question, they also have the right to receive the answer(s) when they become available. Thus an AskThemAll Q&A session would look identical whether on Yahoo or AllExperts. There would only be one.
—bigsleep, Jan 17 2009
   

       I was speaking more of natural selection.
—Spacecoyote, Jan 17 2009
   

       welcome [good]
—po, Jan 17 2009
   

       So how many IP laws does this idea break?
—goodmars, Jan 17 2009
   

       None, AFAICT. Indexing free (as in beer) content is legal, or else search engines wouldn't be in business. Posting the same stuff to multiple sites (as longs as it isn't spam) is legal, this just does the footwork for you.
—Spacecoyote, Jan 17 2009
   

       Or, you could ask me. I know everything.
—superjohn, Jan 18 2009
   

       Well, what do you know?
—Ian Tindale, Jan 18 2009
   

       Yes, I'm actually curious
—goodmars, Jan 18 2009
   

       42 ;-)
—superjohn, Jan 18 2009
   

       [boysparks], after running through a lot of these q &a sites, it seems none of them do a captcha type system even during registration. So, in theory one could register with many q&a sites at once through askthemall.com
—goodmars, Jan 18 2009
   

       //42 ;-)//   

       What was the question?
—UnaBubba, Jan 18 2009
   

       would you guys ever use something like this?
—goodmars, Jan 19 2009
   

       I think you'll find that the Q&A sites make money from delivering advertising as people read the answers. So it might be politic to require people to visit the individual sites to get their replies.
—Aristotle, Jan 20 2009
   

       How would you collate or aggregate the answers? RSS feeds?
—Jinbish, Jan 20 2009
   

       "Intelligent" page scraping like search engines do.
—Spacecoyote, Jan 20 2009
   

       //So everytime I search for something I get a half dozen duplicate hits? No thanks.// Ditto. Plus it would flood all of those sites with lazy questions like, "What color should I wear today?" and then they don't even bother to come back to see the answers. By manually logging into each site, a lazy question asker will become bored or distracted before they could get on the third site.
—Jscotty, Jan 20 2009
   

       interesting.
—goodmars, Jan 21 2009
   

       ///42 ;-)//   

       What was the question? /   

       Yes it was.
—bungston, Jan 21 2009
   
      
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