Blurtit
British Q&A website
Blurtit is a British Q&A website where people asked questions and a community of regular users provided answers based on their knowledge or opinions. Blurtit was founded in 2006, and was based in Norwich in Norfolk, UK.
Blurtit resembled a social media site as opposed to an information reference site. Contributors were encouraged to enter multi–user discussions and to voice opinions about the questions placed. Questions were typically in the long tail of internet search in that they had a large number of keywords, produced limited results on a search engine, and as such required a live human to answer them. Blurtit covered a diverse range of subjects including social and spiritual matters.
History
Tim O’Shea created and launched Blurtit in 2006 as a new venture in their company, Mindcom Internet Limited. Originally it was intended as an experiment to gauge whether a social based Q & A model would be an effective internet traffic generator. Until then Mindcom's revenue was derived from arbitrage of pay per click advertising rates and affiliate marketing.
By 2008 Blurtit became the company's main source of income. The increase in online traffic mirrored that of peers JustAnswer, Answers.com, Answerbag and Yahoo!
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