3 Tightly Focused Niche Q & A Sites You Might Have Missed

There are plenty of Q &A sites and a never ending surge of Internet users going social, asking questions out in the open and waiting for answers to flow through.  If you just care to look through, you have questions being asked on anything from gardening to dating with business in between. While most of the big Q & A sites like Answerbag, Blurtit, Askville and Yahoo! Answers are fairly general sites sorted categorically, there are some Q & A sites worth mentioning that focus tightly on very specific niches – specific people looking for specific answers. Here are some of them we found recently:

Travellr

By far, the travel and leisure Industry is the largest across the world — especially when it comes to research, booking tickets online and other such Internet related activities. There are plenty of authority sites like Escapeartist, Bootsnall (Includes a forum), and Matador Network. How about a Q & A site that just talks about travel and nothing else? Have a question about a place? Want to know about the possibility to live in China for less than $500 a month? How easy (or difficult) to obtain a second citizenship?  Travellr should be the place for you to find some instant answers to your burning questions. Perhaps, getting your question answered would enable you to spread wings and fly?

Girlsaskguys

According to a report published by Marketdata Enterprises Inc[1], the U.S Dating Industry is worth a whopping $1 billion. If that isn’t a reason enough to flock to the Internet, the burning human need to get into and survive relationships should do. Answering this very market, girlsaskguys was started as an exclusive Q &A site just to pick on the best of the alpha males and females who could dispense advise to confused lovers or wannabe pick-up artists, love-lorn junkies, broken hearted souls and those who are just looking out.

The site also features “How-to” Articles and videos, polls and has boasts of a clean interface making it easy for you to drop by and ask the questions. With “Two Sides…All the answers”, you could literally choose from the best of the answers and pick on some truly cumulative experience, don’t you think?

Picanswers

Why should you always answer a question in text? What if you know the name of an object but don’t know how it looks like? Is there is a possibility to answer your questions visually?  Instead of answering with text and getting into intricate explanations about how a thing looks like, can we bend the iron and answer with a picture instead? After all, a picture is worth a thousand words, isn’t it? Now, it deserves a Q &A site too. Picanswers is a site that allows people to know about an unidentified item they found while rummaging through their closets. Alternately, it could allow people to answer your question about something you have never seen before just by uploading a picture for you to see.

According to Mashable,

“PicAnswers is for all those times you’ve come across something like a weird rash on the bottom of your foot, or a scratch on the side of your car. Instead of making a doctor’s appointment or merely getting mad, you can take a snapshot, upload it to PicAnswers, and ask everyone else if they recognize what type of rash that is, or if they’re responsible for the newfound scratch on the side of your car. ”

We realize it’s a juvenile take, but we feel that it’s quite an interesting twist to the usual text-heavy Q & A interface we are used to on the web. Webware however, seems to standby the usefulness of the site since we assume that a dying plant was saved just in time. [http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-9866897-2.html]

Have you come across any niche Q &A sites? Would you like to share your findings with us?