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• Yahoo is shopping for a buyer for Yahoo Answers
• The site commands 150m monthly uniques and 1.3b page views, a 67% increase over last year.
• The problems associated with finding a buyer are all the dead links that would happen if the site we’re to change names as well as the Yahoo email tied into the membership.
• If Facebook purchased them, they could use Facebook Connect for the new log-in which many Yahoo people are already a member of, as well as let users re-join in 4 steps (Facebook has one of the easiest sign-up processed online) who don’t have an account.
• The answers platform could be a default Facebook App for you to ask a question to your friends specifically or to the entire Facebook population.
• Facebook could use the 1.3b page views to give them an even bigger traffic boost, not to mention they could grow the business and produce revenue from it.
• This would strengthen their assault to include verticals that no one thought would happen.
• They can definitelly afford it.

Made tiny from: TechCrunch.com

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