EXCLUSIVE: Indiatimes Launches QnA Platform.. A Year Later Than Everyone Else!
You are reading it first here: Indiatimes has launched a QnA sites at qna.indiatimes.com. This site is still not linked from the indiatimes homepage just yet but it seems complete and should be linked soon. The Indiatimes launch comes more than a year later than competitors rediff and yahoo who had launched qna and answers products way back in 2006-2007. Even Ibibo had launched sawaal in 2007 and sawaalpro recently. NDTV also had a tie up with ammas.com to to launch NDTV Answers. We had suggested recently that better than a QnA model would be a model like Digg Dialogg which was launched recently.
But one has to agree that in the last 2 days Indiatimes is on a roll with the new launches be it mobile centric or now web! Though one look at the QnA site and there is nothing new to write home about other than its a normal QnA site and there is nothing much to set it apart in terms of features besides the indiatimes brand.
We had criticized Indiatimes recently on the launch of hotclix a digg clone which came too late. Given another me too product in QnA one has to question whether all indiatimes can do is make bad clones of existing successful web platforms and that too almost years later than others who seem to have copied it?
Well hope someone in Indiatimes is listening because sooner or later all these products will come under scrutiny for their engagement metrics and hopefully by then they will have decent numbers borrowed from their mother site indiatimes.com to show the reason behind these multiple clones being launched.
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Hi Rajiv,
I think, its right time to do the small comparison on all QnA site ?
Ask them to stop storing password in plain text before working on new products.