Monday, June 8, 2009

What are the top five social question & answer sites?

This is a stat we've been measuring, internally, based on quantcast data every month for nearly a year. The dream has always been, first top five, then top three and then become number one.

We're thrilled to say that, finally, you guys have pushed us into the top 5:
Yahoo Answers
Wiki Answers
Answerbag
Blurtit
FunAdvice

That's the set of sites that are the highest volume of US unique visitors per Quantcast for the month of May...only two of us (Blurtit & FunAdvice) are smaller companies and have never been acquired or raised outside funding, which I think is both interesting and compelling...sometimes, to build an awesome product, it just takes awesome people to *like* the product to propel it places.

Last night, we just pushed a release...the most notable is probably the setting a custom avatar for your group, so it doesn't always reflect your default photo, adding a co-administrator to your group and some relatively minor GUI tweaks to try to make the experience easier to understand, clearer and more fun.

For new members who've been on the site less than thirty days, we actually shrank the number of ads we show...while ads pay the bills, I've had a fair bit of feedback that the ads we removed were hurting the experience. Sorry, but, if it hurts revenue from our reports, we'll probably add them back (we are a business, after all).

The interest pages like this one:
http://www.funadvice.com/interests/puppies are also much improved :)

As usual, let us know what we can do better and we'll try to add it to our list.

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