CAN I GET PAID FOR THE ANSWERS THAT I SUBMIT TO YAHOO? THEY ARE ALL OVER THE WEB! Many Websites other than YA?

Yahoo is NOT selling our answers; other sites are TAKING them, free of charge. Some do it legally, using tools developed by Yahoo and giving CREDIT to Yahoo Answers. See the tools here: http://developers.yahoo.com/answers Other use those tools, or RSS feeds or other simple programs and 'harvest' our Q&A from here WITHOUT giving credit to YA, making it seem like THEIR site is big, busy and awesome. Which it is not. But because most of those sites are small with few resources, it is not worth it for Yahoo to attempt to sue them this illegal use of their content. So they don't bother. What it teaches US is that we should never post anything on the internet that we don't want others to see - forever.

No you aren't going to be paid and had you read the TOS when you signed up instead of lying and just clicking the I have read and I agree box you would know that you had agreed to let them do whatever they wanted to with your posts here.

No, you can't get paid for your answers, because Yahoo is a free service and no, since it is a free service they aren't going to pay the users

Yahoo wont pay anyone because they're greedy..

Yahoo Inc is well aware that other sites are listing questions answers that are posted on YA. PAYING people for answers is a BAD business model. Google Answers FAILED and was shut down because once people are paid for anything, it gets corrupted very quickly and legal litigation with people suing each other for theft of intellectual property and patents and copyright violations gets very expensive. "...Google Answers was an online knowledge market offered by Google that allowed users to post bounties for well researched answers to their queries. Asker-accepted answers cost $2 to $200. Google retained 25% of the researcher's reward and a 50 cent fee per question. In addition to the researcher's fees, a client who was satisfied with the answer could also leave a tip of up to $100. In late November 2006, Google reported that it planned to permanently shut down the service, and it was fully closed to new activity by late December 2006, although its archives remain available.[1]..." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Answers http://answers.google.com/answers/ "...The “official” statements released by Google Answers and the staff who worked on it seem to confirm the idea that the closure was unrelated to Yahoo Answers, and that it was simply a very early experimental product which ultimately wasn’t as successful, in their view, as a Google product should be, and which didn’t fit in with their evolving focus on other priorities. The Google Answers FAQs page has now been modified to note: “Google Answers was an experimental product for users to get help from Researchers with expertise in online searching.” A post about the closure, by the software developers behind Google Answers, on The Official Google Blog, noted: Google is a company fueled by innovation, which to us means trying lots of new things all the time – and sometimes it means reconsidering our goals for a product. Later this week, we will stop accepting new questions in Google Answers, the very first project we worked on here. The project started with a rough idea from Larry Page, and a small 4-person team turned it into reality in less than 4 months. For two new grads, it was a crash course in building a scalable product, responding to customer requests, and discovering what questions are on people’s minds. Of course, for the GARs, and the customers of Google Answers who used the service regularly, the project seemed successful to the extent that many Researchers were earning a living there, or at least adequately supplementing their income sufficiently to continue answering questions. And customers continued to seem happy with the answers, providing high ratings and tips. Nonetheless, the site did not generate the kind of traffic and profit one might reasonably expect from a typical, successful Google product, at least from a corporate viewpoint. The GARs who remained until the end, and put up with the failed email notification system (which was supposed to notify customers of activity on their questions, but stopped doing so), and who watched with disbelief when Google took their primary link for Google Answers off of their list of ’More’ services, felt that Google Answers might fail simply because it was not only not being promoted and well-maintained, but the opposite seemed to be occurring. Repairs to the system were slower in coming, if they were made at all. Communication between GARs and Google Answers administrators dropped off as newsletters decreased in frequency and responses to email consisted increasingly of only canned replies. So, in the long run, it seemed clear to the GARs that Google Answers failed precisely because it was increasingly a non-priority for those who had developed it, and they were putting their attention elsewhere. It seemed that it was no longer the shiny, new experiment of two new and excited software engineers, but a now-familiar distraction from new and different projects, which simply wasn’t worth the time and effort to repair or maintain. This perspective seems to be supported by statements made by other staffers about Google in general, as in the comments by Marissa Mayer, vice-president for search products and user experience, in this article in Business week, who: ...estimates that up to 60% to 80% of Google’s products may eventually crash and burn. But the idea, she says, is to encourage risk-taking and let surviving products truly thrive. ’We anticipate that we’re going to throw out a lot of products,’ says Mayer. ’But [people] will remember the ones that really matter and the ones that have a lot of user potential.’ There are currently 43 former Google Answers Researchers registered at Uclue. And realistically, that represents most, if not all, of the Researchers who remained active to the end of Google Answers. ..." http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-08-09-n28.html