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Jason Calacanis recently revealed his “Project A” which turned out to be Mahalo Answers – a service very similar to Yahoo Answers. The only only major difference between the two being the ability to “tip” someone for providing a good answer on Mahalo. Effectively you are paying for an answer.
So I decided to give Mahalo Answers a test-drive up against Yahoo. I chose to ask a fairly difficult question that would require some research on the behalf of the answerer. Take note, Mahalo Answers is brand new and so it has a minuscule user base compared to that of Yahoo’s.
The Question – What are the best Virtual Personal Assistant companies?
I have been trawling through the intertubes for the past week or so trying to answer this question myself, so I thought it would be fitting to put it to the communities at Mahalo and Yahoo. Here are the results:
At Yahoo Answers - All I got was one spammish reply. I have used Yahoo Answers before and have gotten very good results. But for some strange reason I only got one reply which was completely useless. Check out the answers here
At Mahalo Answers – I honestly thought I wouldn’t get any replies at Mahalo. Its a new site with a smallish community. However it seems that the $5 reward I offered seemed to do the trick. The two answers that I got were pretty average and I wanted more but one did manage to answer my question.
In Conclusion – I thought I did a good job in asking the question correctly and I was disappointed with the answers that I got from both services however Mahalo out performed Yahoo. But it wasn’t worth $5!
I will be trying this experiment again with a more generic question but that is Geographically relevant. This hopefull will really separate the two.
What are your experiences with Mahalo Answers?
