Yahoo! has some answers

Yahoo Answers

Yahoo! recently caused a ripple in the search engine news world when a Bloomberg News article made the wires suggesting the also-ran search engine was throwing in the towel in it's race with Google. Apparently it's not so -- at least according to a post on the Yahoo! Search Engine blog. But that's yesterday's news.

Quietly debuted on the "We're number two - we try harder" site is an overhaul of their long-running feature Ask Yahoo!

Yahoo! Answers (in beta as this post is written) seems to be a response to the wave of user-content driven Web 2.0 info-culture sweeping the net. And they're having their birthing pangs as recorded on their Yahoo! Answers Team blog.

So, you ask, what questions does the world want Yahoo! to answer? Here's a recent sample:

At a restaurant, when you drop food on the floor, is the proper etiquette to pick it up or just let it be?

Why are babies fat and cute?

The Big Bang? Who did it?

... and ...

Do they have girl’s bathrooms in gay bars?

Visitors can post answers and then vote on them. The question we'd like to ask Yahoo! is ... why?