comparison_of_q_a_sites
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Comparison of Q&A sites
The following is a list of websites that follow a question-and-answer format.
The list contains only websites for which an article exists, dedicated either wholly or at least partly to the websites.
| Website | Founded | Closed | Description/focus | Languages available | Copyrighting of user contributions | Registration required? | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answers.com |
|
- | All topics | English | Yes | ||
| Askbot |
|
N/A | varies | varies | varies | ||
| Ask.fm |
|
- | Social topics | 49 languages | Yes | ||
| Ask Me Help Desk |
|
- | Many topics | English and a few others | Yes | Free | |
| Ask MetaFilter |
|
- | Music | English | All posts are copyright to their original authors.<ref>
</ref> |
No to browse, yes to contribute | |
| Avvo |
|
- | Legal | English | Yes | ||
| Baidu Knows |
|
- | Many topics | Chinese | No to browse, yes to contribute | ||
| BlikBook |
|
N/A | Local academic | English | Yes | ||
| Blurtit |
|
- | All topics | English | Yes | ||
| Brainly |
|
- | Academic | 12 languages | Contributed content owned by its author(s) | No to browse, yes to contribute | |
| Brilliant.org |
|
- | Science, technology, math | English | User retains ownership; Brilliant can use, distribute, modify.<ref>
</ref> |
Yes/Paid<ref>https://brilliant.org/premium/?elementId=clicked_b2_mobile_header</ref> | ₹23,900 for life time use |
| ChaCha |
|
|
Many topics | English | Owned by ChaCha.<ref>
</ref> |
na | |
| Chegg |
|
- | Academic | English | Owned by Chegg Inc.<ref>
</ref> |
Yes / paid | |
| eNotes |
|
- | Academic | English | Owned by eNotes.com<ref>
</ref> |
Yes / paid | 14.99/month |
| Experience Project |
|
2016 | Social topics | English | Terms of use for Experience Project<ref>
</ref> |
anonymous | |
| Experts-Exchange |
|
- | Information techonology | Yes / paid | |||
| Fixya |
|
- | Consumer products | English | Yes | ||
| Google Answers |
|
|
English | Yes | |||
| Google Questions and Answers |
|
|
Many topics | Russian, Chinese, English, French | na | ||
| Gutefrage.net |
|
- | German | Yes | |||
| HealthTap |
|
- | Health information | English | No | ||
| Internet Oracle |
|
- | All topics (humorous) | English | No | ||
| Jelly |
|
|
All topics | English | |||
| Jobstr |
|
- | Business | English | |||
| Knowledge Search |
|
- | Many topics | Korean | |||
| LinkedIn Answers |
|
|
Business | Yes | |||
| MadSci Network |
|
- | Science | English | |||
| Mahalo.com |
|
|
Many topics | English | na | ||
| Ответы@Mail.Ru |
|
- | Russian | ||||
| ProfNet |
|
- | Journalists | English | Yes | ||
| Quora |
|
- | Many topics | 9 languages | Contributions owned by the author. Quora granted “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license” to content use, distribution, or modification.<ref>
</ref> |
Yes, except to view single answers | |
| r/AskHistorians |
|
- | History | English | No to browse, yes to contribute | ||
| Sharecare |
|
- | Health and wellness | English | No | ||
| Spring.me (formerly Formspring) |
|
|
All topics | English | Yes | ||
| Stack Exchange |
|
- | Many topics | English (Q&A about other languages takes place in those langugaes as well as English) | Contributions owned by the author. Contributions “perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license”.<ref>
</ref> |
No to browse and ask/answer, yes to contribute fully | |
| Stack Overflow |
|
- | Software development | English, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, and Japanese | No to browse and ask/answer, yes to contribute fully | ||
| The Straight Dope |
(print) |
- | Many topics | English | No | ||
| Transtutors |
|
- | Academic | English | Owned and operated by Transweb Educational Services<ref>
</ref> |
Yes / paid | |
| English Wikipedia Reference Desk |
|
- | Many topics | English | CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL dual license | No | |
| Yahoo! Answers |
|
- | All topics | 13 languages | Contributions owned by the author. Yahoo retains rights to the use, distribution or modification.<ref>
</ref> |
No | |
| Zhihu |
|
- | Many topics | Chinese and a few others | Owned and operated by the original authors. | No | |
| WikiAnswers |
|
2018 | Many topics | Subsumed by Answers.com (one of several concurrent URLs) | |||
| TXN (The Experts Network) |
|
? | Sports | English | No | ||
| Uclue |
|
? | Many topics | English | Yes | ||
| 3form |
|
|
Many topics | English | na | na | |
See also
- Q&A software – includes a comparison of self-hostable Q&A software
References
comparison_of_q_a_sites.txt · Last modified: 2024/04/28 03:16 (external edit)