Comparison of Q&A sites
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The following is a list of websites that follow a question-and-answer format. The list contains only websites for which an article exists, dedicated either wholly or at least partly to the websites.
For the humor "Q&A site" format first popularized by Forum 2000 and The Conversatron, see Q&A comedy website.
| Website | Founded | Closed | Description/focus | Languages available | Copyrighting of user contributions | Registration required? | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Answers.com | Template:Dts | — | All topics | English | Free | ||
| Ask.fm | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Social topics | 49 languages | Yes | ||
| Askbot | Template:Dts | N/A | varies | varies | varies | ||
| Ask MetaFilter | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | English | All posts are copyright to their original authors.[1] | No to browse, yes to contribute | |
| Avvo | Template:Dts | — | Legal | English | Yes | ||
| Baidu Knows | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | Chinese | No to browse, yes to contribute | ||
| BlikBook | Template:Dts | N/A | Local academic | English | Yes | ||
| Blurtit | Template:Dts | — | All topics | English | Yes | ||
| Brainly | Template:Dts | — | Academic | 12 languages | Contributed content owned by its author(s) | No to browse, yes to contribute | |
| Brilliant.org | Template:Dts | — | Science, technology, math | English | User retains ownership; Brilliant can use, distribute, modify.[2] | Yes/Paid[3] | $599.99 for life time use |
| ChaCha | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Many topics | English | Owned by ChaCha[4] | N/A | |
| Chegg | Template:Dts | — | Academic | English | Owned by Chegg Inc.[5] | Yes / paid | |
| eNotes | Template:Dts | — | Academic | English | Owned by eNotes.com[6] | Yes / paid | $14.99/month; $49.99/year[7] |
| Experts-Exchange | Template:Dts | — | Information technology | Yes / paid | |||
| Fixya | Template:Dts | — | Consumer products | English | Yes | ||
| Google Answers | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | English | Yes | |||
| Google Questions and Answers | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Many topics | Russian, Chinese, English, French | N/A | ||
| Gutefrage.net | Template:Dts | — | German | Yes | Free | ||
| HealthTap | Template:Dts | — | Health information | English | No | ||
| Internet Oracle | Template:Dts | — | All topics (humorous) | English | No | ||
| Jelly | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | All topics | English | |||
| Knowledge IN | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | Korean | |||
| LinkedIn Answers | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Business | Yes | |||
| MadSci Network | Template:Dts | — | Science | English | |||
| Mahalo.com | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Many topics | English | N/A | ||
| Ответы@Mail.Ru | Template:Dts | — | Russian | ||||
| ProfNet | Template:Dts | — | Journalists | English | Yes | ||
| Quora | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | 22 languages | Contributions owned by the author. Quora granted "worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license" to content use, distribution, or modification.[8] | Yes, except to view single answers | Free |
| Template:Dts | — | All topics | Depends on subreddit | No to browse, yes to contribute | |||
| Sharecare | Template:Dts | — | Health and wellness | English | No | ||
| Spring.me (formerly Formspring) | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | All topics | English | Yes | ||
| Stack Exchange | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | English (Q&A about other languages takes place in those languages as well as English) | Contributions owned by the author. Contributions "perpetually and irrevocably licensed to Stack Exchange under the Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license".[9] | No to browse and answer, yes to ask and contribute fully. Some topics allow asking as a guest. | |
| Stips | 2006 | — | All topics | Hebrew | Yes | ||
| The Straight Dope | Template:Dts (print) | 2018 | Many topics | English | No | ||
| Transtutors | Template:Dts | — | Academic | English | Owned and operated by Transweb Educational Services[10] | Yes / paid | |
| TXN (The Experts Network) | Template:Dts | ? | Sports | English | No | ||
| Uclue | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | Many topics | English | Yes | ||
| WikiAnswers | Template:Dts | 2018 | Many topics | Subsumed by Answers.com (one of several concurrent URLs) | |||
| English Wikipedia Reference Desk | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | English | CC-BY-SA 3.0 and GFDL dual license | No | |
| Yahoo! Answers | Template:Dts | Template:Dts | All topics | 13 languages | Contributions owned by the author. Yahoo retains rights to the use, distribution or modification.[11] | No | |
| Zhihu | Template:Dts | — | Many topics | Chinese and a few others | Owned and operated by the original authors. | Yes, except to view answers of questions when directed from search engine |
See also
- Comparison of Internet forum software
- Educational Technology
- List of Internet forums
- Knowledge market
- Q&A software – includes a comparison of self-hostable Q&A software
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