Should it have been a successful service, Google Answers wouldn't have to close in the first place. Now that it is, everyone seems to be trying to snatch the Google Answers Community to their site. First there was Yahoo Answers who posted a very nice article expressing their disappointment on Google Answers fate, and inviting the researchers to join Yahoo Answers community, offering an operator role as well. There was also the very polite indirect spam comment to my post Google Answers Falls suggesting their alternative site, and just today, I received a special invitation from a very unlikely source, Amazon, to try and test their beta AskVille service. A similar concept to Yahoo Answers where people post questions and gather points.
The service uses same Amazon access credentials, and is still invitation based only. Categories are not predefined, and rather determined by the user specified topic keywords as it seems. The user profile is also still very limited, not containing much information to set. The more you ask and participate, the more you earn points (coins as they call it), and it seems all to be a preparation for a big campaign they are promising in 2007 calling it questVille!.
From the first impression, the site is still new so its hard to judge on the answer response time, though they seem to have a limit of 5 answers per question in 7 days max. Yahoo Answers seems more organized while AskVille did better in response time using AJAX occasionally.
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