MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

re: MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

Jamie — Tue, 12 May 2009 15:26:44 GMT

I agree with the quikboy Its madness that MS thinks City Guides has more potential than QNA as there is no reason i would use it (city guides) and there is far better sources that a web search can find if you wanted to know about many more places and its worldwide.

But at least Yahoo Answers i believe doing something right as it is the direction QNA was hopefully going and both far better than MSN Boards

re: MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

quikboy — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:23:01 GMT

I'm also surprised they're going to even 'bother' making MSN City Guides into a place that probably very view people will ever truly use.

The first straw happened with killing off the City Search partner (which brought a LOT of data to the site)

The 2nd straw was updating the site for ONLY relatively a few new events happening, and a bunch of stupid articles about places to visit in cities around the U.S. (I want info. about my city!). No new sites designs or features for over a year.

So now they're paying attention to that? QnA has more potential than a silly city guides site where there's already much more professional sites and sources to get that info. (like a local news site, Facebook, specialty sites, etc.) or a community question and answer type site, where only Yahoo! has managed to grasp it somewhat right.

These decisions always make me shake my head at MS.

re: MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

quikboy — Tue, 12 May 2009 02:16:52 GMT

The final straw was moving it over to MSN. I know it was a beta, but a lot of people that use the betas hope it will continue to exist (such as Microsoft Max) but obviously the team is keeping hush hush about how the QnA experience will improve anything.

QnA did have potential when it was on Live, it just needed ads to keep it afloat. In this recession, it was bound to die away without some type of money-making.

re: MSN QnA Beta Is Closing On May 21st

BuciboLebo — Mon, 11 May 2009 19:14:42 GMT

Sadly so. Qna was quite an experience. It could probably not be monetized by itself but it did a lot to add to building a Windows Live community which I was part of.