Getting the Right Answers
| Wednesday, November 1st, 2006 | --jr |
I'll admit that one of the things that used to annoy me about Yahoo! Answers was going through some list about optimizing PHP and seeing a question like:
Y do boiz h8 mee?
While one can guess that HappyKiTTee_8192831's personal issues could be attributed to a lack of literary skill, one could equally assume that she would not get the answer that she expected.
Not surprisingly, the Yahoo! Answers folks picked up on this as well and decided to use the Context Engine to help solve that problem. Right now, after you ask a question and before it gets posted, your question is scanned for appropriate points of context and you're helpfully pointed toward more appropriate sections.