List of question-and-answer websites
Encyclopedia
The following is a list of websites that have a question-and-answer form.
Website URL  Founded Volunteer? Alexa
Alexa Internet
Alexa Internet, Inc. is a California-based subsidiary company of Amazon.com that is known for its toolbar and Web site. Once installed, the toolbar collects data on browsing behavior which is transmitted to the Web site where it is stored and analyzed and is the basis for the company's Web traffic...

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Allexperts http://www.allexperts.com/ 1998 Yes 1,957 No
AOL Answers  http://aolanswers.com/ 2006 Yes 6,634 Yes
Answerbag
Answerbag
Answerbag is a collaborative online database of FAQs, where questions are asked and answered by users. Instead of the one question—one answer model, multiple answers to a given question are presented, in descending order of user ratings. As of December 2006, Answerbag was the second largest...

 
http://www.answerbag.com/ 2003 Yes 1,128
Answers.com
Answers.com
Answers.com is an Internet-based knowledge exchange, which includes WikiAnswers, ReferenceAnswers, VideoAnswers, and five international language Q&A communities. The Answers.com domain name was purchased by Bill Gross and Henrik Jones at idealab in 1996. The domain name was acquired by NetShepard...

 
http://www.answers.com/ 2005 Yes 127 No
Askpedia http://www.askpedia.com/ 123,765
Ask Me Help Desk
Ask Me Help Desk
Ask Me Help Desk is a collaborative question-and-answer website, where questions are asked and answered by users, both lay and expert. In existence since 2003, it has over 800,000 members, with over 500,000 questions asked and, in total, more than 2.5 million answers given...

 
http://www.askmehelpdesk.com/ 2003 Yes 6,686 Yes
Askville
Askville
Askville is a user-driven research site founded by Amazon.com and opened to the public on December 8, 2006.-History:Askville was co-founded by Korean-American former investment banker Joseph Park, previously co-founder of Kozmo.com . The documentary film e-Dreams portrays the fate of the company...

 
http://askville.amazon.com/Index.do Yes Yes
bab.la Forum: Ask & Answer  http://en.bab.la/forum/ 2011 Yes 2,133 No
Blurtit
Blurtit
Blurtit is a Q&A website where people ask questions and a community of regular users provide answers based on their knowledge or opinions. Blurtit was founded in 2006, and is based in Norwich in Norfolk, UK...

 
http://www.blurtit.com/ 2006 Yes 1,716
ChaCha
ChaCha (search engine)
ChaCha is a search engine that specializes in answering questions through a technique known as the human search engine. ChaCha was created by Scott A. Jones and Brad Bostic...

 
http://www.chacha.com/ 1,198
Experts-Exchange
Experts-Exchange
Experts-Exchange.com is a membership-based online "ask an expert" site for computer and IT related questions that was founded in 1996....

 
http://www.e-e.com/ 1996 Yes 1,424 Yes
Flipter http://www.flipter.com/ 2010 Yes 501,469
Fluther  17,014
Hesitation http://www.hesitation.co.uk// 2011 Yes Yes
LinkedIn Answers
LinkedIn Answers
LinkedIn Answers is a knowledge market service by LinkedIn. It is somewhat similar to 3form Free Knowledge Exchange, Naver Knowledge iN, Yahoo! Answers, and other knowledge markets...

 
http://www.linkedin.com/answers
Live QnA 
mshd.net http://www.mshd.net/ 2010 No 4,340,018 No
Quora
Quora
Quora is a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users. The site was founded in June 2009, launched in private beta in December 2009, and made available to the public on June 21, 2010....

 
http://www.quora.com/ 2009 Yes
Rediff Q&A
Rediff.com
Rediff.com India is a news, information, entertainment, and shopping portal. It was founded in 1996 as "Rediff On The NeT" and is headquartered in Mumbai, India with offices in New Delhi and New York City, USA....

 
http://qna.rediff.com/ No
SN50 Answers http://sn50.com/ 2010 Yes 855,363
SocialAnswers http://www.socialanswers.com/ 2011 Yes
Stack Exchange Network
Stack Exchange Network
The Stack Exchange Network is a network of websites featuring questions and answers on a wide range of topics in different fields, owned and operated by Stack Exchange, Inc....

 
http://stackexchange.com/ 2008 Yes 1,576 No
Vark
Aardvark (search engine)
Aardvark was a social search service that connected users live with friends or friends-of-friends who were able to answer their questions, also known as a knowledge market...

 
http://vark.com/ 2007
W5HAnswers http://www.w5hanswers.com/ 3,870,819
WebAnswers http://www.webanswers.com/ 9,465
Whyzz http://www.whyzz.com/ 553,985
WikiAnswers
WikiAnswers
WikiAnswers is an ad-supported wiki-based website where users can submit and answer questions.This site allows users to post and edit questions and answers. WikiAnswers.com uses wiki technology and fundamentals, allowing communal ownership and editing of content. Each question has a "living"...

 
http://wiki.answers.com/
Wikipedia Reference Desk  Wikipedia:Reference desk  c. 2001 Yes 7th No
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers
Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven question-and-answer site or a knowledge market launched by Yahoo! on June 28, 2005 that allows users to both submit questions to be answered and answer questions asked by other users...

http://answers.yahoo.com/

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