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  • Microsoft's Yahoo Answers rival quietly opens for testing

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    03.18.2015

    We've all stared, wide-eyed, at the people on Yahoo Answers who want to know how to become a real mermaid or why their cat vibrates. It appears that Microsoft has too, but it's philosophy is not to join its one-time friend, but to beat it with a homegrown rival. Bing Distill is a question and answer website where "millions ask" and, perhaps unsurprisingly, "you answer."