Who came up with the idea for Yahoo answers?

[Ethan]

[Trilobiteme]

God

[Taylor]

me

[oklatonola]

Very likely it was more than one person, but the people who started Yahoo were part of a team that came up with the idea

"...Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search) and for a variety of other services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports and its social media website. It is one of the most popular sites in the United States.[3] According to news sources, roughly 700 million people visit Yahoo! websites every month.[4][5] Yahoo itself claims it attracts "more than half a billion consumers every month in more than 30 languages."[6]

Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. On July 16, 2012, former Google executive, Marissa Mayer, was named as Yahoo CEO and President, effective July 17.[7].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!

I suspect when Google Answers failed, Yahoo seized the moment and saw the marketing potential to replace Google answers with something similar, but with NO MONEY involved.

"...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

Once you start paying people money to do anything, it becomes corrupting very quickly, because so many people are very paranoid AND greedy for money.

[Lukas]

the founders were Jerry Yang, David Filo