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http://www.google.com/baraza/en

What a weird little product. It's like Yahoo Answers, but somehow with even less sorting or categorization.



'baraza' is Swahili for forum/meeting place. It was very much Yahoo Answers, targeted at the African market - here in Kenya, most people only have internet access via mobile connections, often using feature phones, hence the minimalistic stylesheet.

Baraza never really took off.

More about it here: http://whiteafrican.com/2010/10/05/google-baraza-qa-for-afri...


http://www.google.com/baraza/en/help?file=inboundsms

They have an SMS companion service that only works in Ghana..


Amazingly, the questions seem to be even dumber than the ones found on YA:

- why is computer an idiot machine

- i casted a love spell on my ex,should i tell her now that she is back

- What is the colour of the black box which is using in planes ?




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