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Online Q and A forums hit the mainstream

April 18, 2008
Estimated reading time: 1 minutes

Mark Ackerman and Lada Adamic

Online question and answer forums are as old as the Internet, but they’re reaching the mainstream and making the web more human, say two researchers who have just completed a large-scale study of Yahoo Answers.

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