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 Live Search QnA homepage | |
| Developer(s) | Microsoft |
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| Preview release | Beta
/ March 16th, 2006 to May 21st, 2009 |
| Type | Knowledge Market |
| Website | Archived official website at the Wayback Machine (archive index) |
MSN QnA (formerly Live Search QnA and Windows Live QnA, codenamed Answers), was a question and answer service, part of Microsoft's MSN group of services. It is somewhat similar to Google Answers, but closer in function to Yahoo! Answers. Users could ask questions, tag them according to topic, and gain points and reputation for answering other users' questions.
The service was community based; questions are posed to the whole community, rather than just one researcher. At this point there are apparently no plans for any monetary compensation of any kind for answering questions; rather, like with Yahoo! Answers, the only rewards are having high point counts and good reputation. In order to open an account a user needs a Windows Live ID (now Microsoft account).
All questions on MSN QnA were "tagged" by the poster to allow easy searching and navigation.
The MSN QnA beta ended and the website closed on May 21, 2009.