Facebook has apparently pushed out some much needed changes to the company’s questions product. Most significant is the addition of a new button which enables you to return back to the home area of questions, something that I’m not sure why it was missing for so long. Facebook has also redesigned the look of tags (not surprisingly more like Quora), and a cleaner overall look of the page. While the product is still in Beta, many have been wondering why there were so many bugs to start with.
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Quora is pushing forward with the continued opening of their service as Facebook Questions continues through a relatively rocky start. Given that it has become relatively obvious that Facebook Questions is nothing short of a direct attack against Quora, the company is preparing to release it’s incredibly high quality content to Google. One of the primary things that Quora users are probably asking themselves at this point is whether or not the opening of the site to search engines will negatively impact the quality of content on the site.
This afternoon Facebook announced the official release of Facebook Questions, a service which is being described as “a beta product that lets you pose questions to the Facebook community”. The answers are a mixed response of public answers as well as answers directly from your friends and their friends. Just like Quora, questions can be tagged with various topics, and then users can browse based on those topics. All questions and answers will be completely public. So when will this roll out for everyone?
Determining that something should be a fundamental component of human communication is a pretty big deal, but for Facebook that’s exactly what they do every time they launch a new feature to help users share with each other. One of the highly buzzed about products that the company is currently testing is “Questions”, something we first 