By the end of last year, Google shut down its paid Q&A service. Then in June, it rolled out a free answers service in Russia. Now the Chinese version of the service launched, under the domain of Tianya.
This is again a free service. Everything seems to be identical to the Russian version. By cooperating with Tianya, the service got 20M registered users at the starting point.
Besides the Gmail like interface, there’re several features I like.
When you post a new question, the service will show you similar questions on the right side. And the list is dynamic. You can change the title during writing the post, the right side question list and the suggested tags will change accordingly. But it seems content of the post won’t affect the suggestions. Google is really good at such kind of Ajax suggestions. It’s surely better than Baidu Zhidao, which gives a static one-time similar question list.
Users can subscribe to tags they are interested in. Baidu don’t have similar feature. Instead it has RSS. But sometimes inline subscription is useful than RSS because of application context.
You can login the system with Tianya account. The first time you use the service, it will give you a privacy alert that your IP information will be recorded for at least two months. And it will be available for authority on request. Is this the first time a Chinese service clearly notices users about a privacy policy?
answers, Google, Tianya
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