They say that asking the right questions was more important than giving answers. If so, WikiAnswers must have some good ones in their 1 million question archive.
The millionth question in this user-generated wing of Answers.com was in the Science and Environment category, and it was “Are there readily available substitutes for gold in industrial applications?” Unfortunately, the question has not been answered yet, but it doesn’t really matter; WikiAnswers is proving to be a very valuable knowledge repository and a good place to search for an answer if your favorite search engine doesn’t give you anything of value.
ComScore data shows that WikiAnswers is growing fast, being the second-fastest growing domain of the top 1500 web domains, which sounds a bit ambiguous since it’s not really a TLD; it’s a subdomain of Answer.com. However, the million questions themselves speak enough about the users’ interest in the service. This accomplishment is even more significant when you remember that Google’s equivalent of this service (albeit admittedly different in nature, Google Answers had selected experts answering the questions and charging for it) Google Answers, was one of the rare Google services which have been discontinued.
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