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03.19.08

A substitute for natural language search search, traffic | (0)
HitWise is reporting 118% year-over-year growth for question and answer sites like the category leader Yahoo Answers. The report lacks any sort of referral statistics -- like where the traffic is originating -- but I have the theory that it's coming from people continuing to ask search engines questions rather than Q&A sites. Returning traffic appears quite low. Yahoo has the most impressive results with about 50% of it's traffic from returning users (does this mean returning Yahoo! members, or just Y! Answer users?) but other sites in the report are heavily lop-sided averaging only ~15% of users returning. ...

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