It works by the user (i.e. you) asking the community a question. Then, people will read your question which is displayed on the homepage and in a series of categories. They will then vote as to whether it is normal with the real-time result being displayed at the top of the questions page.

People can also comment on a question that doesn’t have a straight forward yes/no answer to give advice or to convince you that there’s nothing wrong. The community is active and buzzing with witty remarks and sound advice.

Submitting a question is easy once you’re registered. Other than that, there is no need to register if you just want to see what’s normal/abnormal with other people and vote on questions. A great website to seek help and it’s addicting!

Features:

• Vote on people’s questions.
• Search and browse site.
• Submit a question yourself.
• Add and receive comments.
• Vibrant community.

Check out IsItNormal @ www.isitnormal.com (by Dean Sherwin)

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• Yedda : Ask Questions. Get Answers.
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• Omgili: Search Forums & Discussion Boards

The site also lets you contribute by identifying pictures submitted by others. When some answer gets five votes an image becomes officially identified. Anyone can identify pictures and vote on images without the need to sign up, the registration is only required for people who want to submit pictures for identification.

Features:

• Submit photos of anything or anyone and identify them with help from others.
• Try to identify photos of other users and vote on answers.
• Identify pictures randomly or browse them by categories.
• Get an image link and share it on your Twitter or Facebook profile.
• Free and easy to use.
• The iPhone version available as well.
• Similar websites: PicAnswers.

Check out idthis @ www.idthis.org (via TechCrunch)

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• TechGuy: Tech Support For Hardware and Software Problems
• ServerFault: Q & A for Server Problems & Network Related Issues
• PicAnswers : Post a Picture and Get Answers

Hunch is designed so that every time it’s used, it learns something new and gets better. First it learns about you and then helps you make deicision based on what it already knows about you.

After a series of questions related to your problem, the most appropriate answer is displayed in the following manner.

In case you’re signed up with hunch, your answers are saved for future references. You can also contribute to hunch by adding a topic, a question or a new result.

Features :

• Online decision making application helps in making decisions.
• Provides solution after asking a number of questions related to your problem.
• Gets better every time it is used.
• Contribute to Hunch by adding a topic or a question and new result.

Check out Hunch @ www.hunch.com (By Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

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• Instructables: The Web’s Biggest Show & Tell
• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online
• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

Questions are sorted according to their popularity, as measured by the number of views, answers and votes. Users can browse questions by tags, by popularity or search topics using site search engine.

Active members can collect reputation points and enjoy further editing privileges, which includes retagging others’ questions, creating new tags, editing user posts and more.

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Features:

• Q & A site for server problems and network related issues.
• Questions are sorted according to their popularity as measured by the number of views, answers and votes.
• Ask or answer questions without registration.
• Sign up to be able to vote on questions and answers.
• Enjoy further member privileges by collecting reputation points.
• Similar website: TechGuy.

Check out Serverfault @ www.serverfault.com

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• TechGuy: Tech Support For Hardware and Software Problems
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• ToAnswer: Get Answers to Your Questions through Twitter
• PicAnswers : Post a Picture and Get Answers
• idthis: Easily Identify Pictures of Things & People

Start by searching for answers using the search engine. The site is old, over 10 years, so there is a high likelihood that someone already asked the very same question and got the answer. If you could not find the answer to your problem, sign up and post your question in the relevant category.

Features:

• Get free technical support with your computer’s hardware and software issues.
• Popular Q & A site with over 350,000 members, over 10 years old.
• Search questions and answers in different tech categories like Software, Hardware, Networking etc.
• Free. Sign up to post your own question in the relevant category.

Check out TechGuy @ www.techguy.org

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• ServerFault: Q & A for Server Problems & Network Related Issues
• Yahoo Answers: Biggest Q&A Community on The Web
• ToAnswer: Get Answers to Your Questions through Twitter
• PicAnswers : Post a Picture and Get Answers
• idthis: Easily Identify Pictures of Things & People

When it come to Omgili it’s a search engine for searching forums, discussion boards mailing lists and pretty any kind of online message boards. It analyzes and differentiates between discussion entities such topic, title, replies, date etc., and sorts search results accordingly to get you the most timely and relevant information.

Furthermore, Omgili has a couple of additional services like

- Omgili Buzz: daily overview of most popular discussion topics
- Omgili Q&A: searches only Q&A sites.

Features:

• Discussion boards and forums search engine.
• Omgili indexes millions of online discussions from over 100,000 boards.
• Additional Omgili services: Omgili Buzz, Q&A, TV Shows and more.
• Site also available in Hebrew and Japanese languages.

Check out Omgili @ www.omgili.com

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• SnappyFingers: Find Answers by Searching FAQ Sections
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• GetSatisfaction: Universal Tech Support
• Zapproved: Web based Decision Making Tool

Currently bug.gd has amost 80.00 errors and solutions in its database. If you did not find a solution to your error on bug.gd and later solved your problem by other means then you might consider improving the site by sharing your solution with others.

Features:

• Search and find a fix to your error message.
• Submit solution to your error and share it with others.
• Currently database has 79,413 errors and solutions.
• Rate and comment on solutions.
• Keep track of submitted errors in one place (account required)
• Firefox Extension and Firefox/ IE search bar addons for quicker access.
• Similar website: ErrorKey.

Check out bug.gd @ www.bug.gd

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• ServerFault: Q & A for Server Problems & Network Related Issues
• PicAnswers : Post a Picture and Get Answers

Searching on Snappy Fingers for specific questions returns more targeted results than what you would normally get searching Google or Yahoo. For instance, if you search for iPhone you will get iPhone related FAQs such as what is iPhone, is the iWoofer compatible with iPhone, who is selling it and so on.

Hence, if you are looking for a specific answer and searching on Google or Yahoo brings you nowhere then try searching for it SnappyFingers.

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• ZabaSearch: Search People by Name, Address & Phone Number
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• Yauba: Anonymous Search Engine
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Features:

• List your homework questions and get answers.
• Make money by answering questions listed by others.
• Covers rich choice of topics.

StudentOfFortune now covers over 34 categories and 450 topics. Therefore, you can ask pretty much anythig here.

Because the website is still rather unknown it may take a while unil someone answers your questions. So If your question is rather general then I’d recommend checking one of the Q&A websites instead.

Check out StudentOfFortune @ www.studentoffortune.com

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• WiZiQ : Virtual Classroom
• wePapers: Student Paper Database to Find & Share Notes
• WebElements: Online Copy Of The Periodic Table Of Elements
• VocabSushi: The Easy Way To Build Your Vocabulary

(1) via SMS – type a question and send it to provided MyMiaMia number
(2) Spoken – call MyMiaMia number and ask your question.

In both cases, once the question is submitted, you should receive an answer within in a few minutes (via email or SMS). Your answers will also contain a short contextual ad at the end.

Features

• Ask questions for free and get answers delivered to your email or mobile phone.
• Ask as often as you like and as many questions as you want.
• Send the question via SMS or dial the service directly.
• No sign-up or registration needed.
• MyMiaMia is free (depending on your mobile plan standard charges for sending/receiving SMS messages may apply)

Check out MyMiaMia @ www.mymiamia.com (via downloadsquad.com )

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• ZipSkinny : Zip Code Finder
• ZipMaps: Find Out Zip Code For Any Place in the US
• Zipdecode: Visualize Zip Code Location as You Type
• ZCmap : Zip Code Lookup by City or State

How it works ?

1. Get a Twitter account

2. Follow ToAsk and ToAnswer profiles (and MakeUseOf ).

3. Ask a question by adding @ToAsk before the question.

Next, ToAnswer Twitter bot indexes your question and posts it on the ToAnswer homepage where other twitter users can answer it. You can also answer questions on the ToAnswer homepage by clicking on ” Answer This ” link below the question and then typing the answer. Further, it also lets you subscribe to RSS feed of the questions which helps you track them from within your RSS reader.

Check out ToAnswer @www.toanswer.net ( Contributed by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog )

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• TwitRobot: Schedule & Tweet Automatically
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It’s also a social networking site where you can discover people with similar interests. In their own words:

“FunAdvice.com is the only site that combines these two features: Asking for and giving advice, PLUS making new friends and keeping in touch with them socially.”

Features:

Check out FunAdvice @ www.funadvice.com

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• Wikirank: View Hot Topics on Wikipedia

PicAnswers Features

• Submit an image and ask other users to help you identify it.
• Contribute and try to identify images submitted by other users.
• Browse submitted pictures by categories: Animals, Arts, Auto, Computers, Food, Game, Humor, Home etc.
• Check out ‘most recent’, ‘most popular’ and ‘most commented’ images.

Check out PicAnswers @ www.picanswers.com

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• ServerFault: Q & A for Server Problems & Network Related Issues
• idthis: Easily Identify Pictures of Things & People

WonderHowTo Features

• Search over 90.000 ‘How to’ videos.
• Browse videos by category, topic, or user rating (ex. see videos graded A- or better).
• Buzz: Check out ‘Hot Videos’ and ‘Clip of the Day’.
• Comment on and rate videos.
• Create your own list of topic-focused ‘How to’ videos and share it with others.

Check out WonderHowTo @ [ www.wonderhowto.com ]

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• SuTree : Over 10.000 of Educational Videos
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As of this writing, the latest successfully answered question is:

If you go to small claims court and you win your case; what happens if the defendent doesn’t have the money to pay what the judge orders him to pay?

How It Works?

• 1. Type-in your question and select relevant category.
• 2. CivilAnswers sends your inquiry to its network of professional experts.
• 3. Wait for reply!

Feature List

• Ask legal questions and get free help.
• Categories include: Copyright, DBA & FBN, Divorce, Incorporation, LLC & LLP, Name Cahnge, Small Claims and Trademark.
• Become CivilTree Expert: Promote your firm and services, Assist individuals in you state, etc.

Check out CivilAnswers @ www.civilanswers.com

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In case you wonder where Ask500People gets so much of exposure for selected questions, here is what they say: “We’ve made arrangements with several high-traffic sites to be able to display polls there when needed.”

Features List:

• Ask questions and express your opinion by answering questions from other users.
• Comment on and rate questions.
• Add additional answer options.
• Put an Ask500People widget on your website and let your readers vote on current questions.

Check out Ask500people @ www.ask500people.com

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BusinessWeek: “Get Satisfaction describes its product as “people-powered customer-service.” Named Satisfaction, it is part online forum, part FAQ, and part social network.”

How does it work?

1. 1. Find a company that provides a product / service you need help with.
2. 2. Ask a question or start a new topic. If a similar topic already exists just join the conversation.
3. 3. Post your question or problem.
4. 4. As soon as someone posts a reply GetSatisfaction will send you an email.

Feature Overview

• Find the company that provides the product or service you need help with and post your question.
• Sort discussions by type (’Questions’, ‘Ideas’, ‘Problems’ and ‘Talk’) or ‘Recently Active’, ‘Latest’, or ‘Unanswered’.
• Follow-up on all posted questions (for any company) from your feedreader.
• If the company you’re looking for isn’t listed you can add it yourself.
• Want to contribute? You may help out others either as an independent contributor or as a representative of the company you’re working for.

Check out GetSatisfaction @ www.getsatisfaction.com

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• Customer Service Scoreboard For Top Companies
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• FixYa : Fix Your Gadgets Online

- How To Make A “Secret Container” Out Of a Lighter
- How to Build Hairspray-powered Potato Cannon.
- How To Make a Safety Pin From a Paperclip.
- How To Paint Your Car With Rustoleum

Overview

• Browse instructables by popularity or category: art, craft, food, games, home, life, offbeat, ride, and tech.
• Rate and discuss user submitted instructables.
• Submit your own DIY ‘How to’ instructables.
• Join and create topic-specific groups (i.e. illegal, howtoons, USB toys, … ).
• Participate in contests with cool prizes.
• Subscribe to weekly newsletter (over 100,000 subscribers).
• For more detailed overview go to instructables guided tour here.

Interview with Instructables.com

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• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

AppScout.com: “It offers you a way share your knowledge to help other people fix and find workarounds for problems with their electronics, find help for your own problems, look up service manuals and troubleshooting tips, and even make a little money on the side.”

Feature List

• Post your problems and get free tech support.
• Help solving user submitted problems and earn cash. Read more.
• Subscribe to the latest submitted issues (on any gadget) via RSS (iPhone, iPod).
• Monitor all posted problems via RSS.
• Browse thousands of resolved problems via tag cloud.
• Search local repair services by zip code, or by product category (mobile phones, laptops, etc.).
• FixYa Warranty Manager: Finds and Stores all your products’ warranty and support information in your FixYa account.

Check out FixYa @ www.fixya.com

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Feature Overview

• Browse questions by tags, Recently asked, Recently answered, or Most interesting.
• Explore People: ‘Most active’ or ‘Top ranked’.
• Watch questions via custom RSS feeds OR add them to your account watchlist.

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• WonderHowTo: Huge ‘How to’ Video Search Engine

• Do bald people need shampoo?
• Are you your body?
• Is ‘peace’ too much to ask for?

Time.com: “… easy to get sucked in for hours as you scramble to dream up witty questions, see who has answered them, scan their queries, answer the good ones, then circle back to your own list to see who has posted comments while you were away.”

Wis.dm Overview

• Ask questions and quickly receive multiple Yes or No responses.
• Discuss questions with others.
• Browse community questions by topics (politics, music, food, culture, etc.), popularity, and freshness.
• Edit or delete previously posted questions or comments.
• View all of your submitted Questions and Answers in one place.
• Discover and Connect with like minded people via ‘Compatibility’ feature. Shows percentage of questions you both answered the same.
• Ask wis.dm browser button: Easily post a question to wis.dm without leaving the current web page.

Visit Wis.dm [http://wis.dm]

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Mosio: “Whether it’s to settle a bar bet or just get that urgent piece of info you need, Mosio enables you to text any questions to real people called “QnAgents”, sitting at their computers, ready to help.”

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Additional Features:

• Twitter Integration: Ask question right from your Twitter account, using any device.
• Jott Integration: Dial Jott, say “Mosio” and your question, get back a text message with the answer.

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Fluther features

• Ask and Discuss questions with other online members.
• Search or Browse through answered questions by tags (Fluther Topics).
• Subscribe to new questions via RSS feed
• Hand–tailored to you: The more you use Fluther, the more personalized it becomes

Visit Fluther http://fluther.com

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Each posted question goes through 3 standard stages: open (requires an answer), undecided (multiple answers are given and users are asked to rate and choose the best one) and resolved (best answer has been selected).

Additional Features:

• Browse and search through millions of already answered questions.
• Rate, Share, Monitor and Comment on answers.
• RSS Subscribe: for latest questions, for latest by category, OR for replies to specific question.
• Monitor particular person’s questions and answers through RSS.
• Embed your questions and answers on your blog, website or social profile (Myspace, Bebo, ….)
• and more …

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