Hiding your Pulse profile
Following last week’s changes to the My Activity Page, we have received several comments about showing the link to Pulse on your public profile page. Remember your profile on Yahoo! is no longer...
View ArticleChanges to desktop and mobile
We’ve made a few minor changes and bug fixes this week to both the desktop and mobile versions of Answers which we wanted to let you know about. Here’s a rundown of the changes: Mobile Our new mobile...
View ArticleIt’s Bonus time: Get Double Points for Your Answers Now!
For a strictly limited period, you can earn an extra 2 points for every question you answer. ‘Tis the time of year for saying “thank you”, giving gifts and rewarding hard work. Our way of saying “thank...
View ArticleThe Answers community is about to get even bigger!
Currently, as a pre-requisite to participate on Yahoo! Answers, we ask that you have a Yahoo! ID to sign-in to the Yahoo! network. This in turn is where your identity on both Yahoo! and Answers is...
View ArticleHow do we choose the Best of Answers?
Many of you show a lot of interest in the content that appears in the “Best of Answers” module and often ask how this is selected and what decisions go into what we choose to highlight. Today, we’d...
View ArticleUpdate: Ratings
**UPDATE: We’ve been listening and we’ve heard your suggestions and feedback. The ratings testing is taking a short break, while we update the choices, to include negative ratings for you. These will...
View ArticleNew Feature: The Question Recommender
**Update: Question Recommender has been enhanced to allow you to reject questions that you don’t want to answer. You can do this by hovering over a question in the Recommended Tab and then clicking...
View ArticleYahoo! Answers Ranked 5th Largest Social Media Network
With 54 million unique users in the U.S. and 250 million worldwide, Yahoo! Answers is among the largest knowledge-sharing communities on the Web. And according to the Business Journals network, it’s...
View ArticleChange for some Yahoo! products
Today, we announced that we are sunsetting a few products. For the full list, please click here. Since some of you use Yahoo! Avatars, we wanted to let you know that it will be going away. However, you...
View ArticleDiscover What’s Trending on Answers
The Yahoo! Answers team is happy to roll out a new feature called ‘Trending Questions’- A set of five questions which will cover most popular events and top stories in your region. Trending Questions...
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