Microsoft's public search social beta has been released

Following Yahoo Answers and “Answers@Mail.ru” , Microsoft is also trying to enter the social search market. Their Windows Live QnA development experience has approximately the same functionality: here users can ask questions and receive answers, as well as conduct full-text search in the accumulated “knowledge base” or search by tags (for each question, the author indicates a number of thematic tags).



After the question has appeared, the “experts” community has four days to answer it, otherwise the question is removed. Encouragement points are awarded for the answer, and each topic is voted on for the best answer. The smartest experts near the nick one after another appear golden stars.