*Serious* what are we answering questions for?



Yahoo! is a big company, as such its only drive is to make money. I don’t believe that they would make a service like this unless it was doing something for them. Are they compiling profiles on us? is every answer we give slowly categorizing us? what are they going to do when they have enough data to pinpoint who we are and what we know? what does this mean for us?
Yahoo! already have a prosess called behavioral targeting where they indevidualy advertise things to us depending on what we like. Is answers an extention of this?

Posted on July 6th, 2010 in Yahoo Answers |

8 Responses

  1. kma22263 Says:

    To show what we know… and don’t know.

  2. Lani Says:

    Probably.

    Maybe they are trying to get us all addicted and then when we are then they will start charging us to answer and ask questions! By then it will be too late.

  3. allheart Says:

    You sound a bit parinoid! I answer questions when its 4:30 a.m. and I can’t sleep. Bores me enough eventually.

  4. mlaheji م ﻟﺤﺠﻲ Says:

    It could be.
    It could also be that Yahoo! has nothign to do with it, since our question history and stuff are all publicly available.

  5. chael_han Says:

    I just like asking nonsensical questions and see what kind of answers pop up.

  6. fashionguy Says:

    Your lack of conformity has been noted.

  7. novembr Says:

    Doesnt it feel good…. when ur answered by 6people in 5seconds!

  8. Who am I? Says:

    Hey………..I am scared now….ok. What if?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>What if?

    I just don’t want to think. I don’t care.

    What will you do first if you win 1 Million Dollars in a Lottery?

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