Guruza Enters Crowded Expert Market
There is a new question answering service called Guruza. TechCrunch explains Guruza's set-your-price system.
Here's how it works. You ask a question and set a price you'll pay for an answer that satisfies you. Users can scan the list of questions, leave their replies and the person who posed the question decides which if any answer they like best. That person receives the financial reward, transactions performed in PayPal. Guruza takes 20% when you cash out with the money you make answering questions.If you don't like Guruza there are plenty of competitors: Yahoo Answers, Ask.Metafilter, Google Answers, Oyogi and Qunu. Still more fee-based answer services can be found here.
How do you know people will pay? Each person who poses a question has the number of questions they've asked and the number of answers they’ve paid on displayed below their name. How simple is that? It's an active little community already, with most but not all questions being about software development.
The best part is AIM, GTalk or Jabber IM notification when users you're watching come online or when some one wants to discuss your question. You get a link to an inline chat sent via your IM client. All the answers and discussions are viewable by users even after the question is closed, so there’s a lot of potential for building a cool public knowledge base here.
Posted on July 14, 2006
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