Why do people ask questions on Y!A that they could google and find the answer is mere seconds?

To get peoples perspective. Sometimes its much easier to have someone tell you something in 1-2 sentences. When you google something, you usually end up getting long wiki articles that are rarely summarized.

Yahoo answers is ultimately a form of social media, and perhaps someone is looking for opinion and a conversation, not just an answer.

One thing I have often wondered is, what has happened to libraries. You know, those buildings where books are kept on a variety of subjects. I know it might seem a bit old-fashioned , but alot of my knowlege has been gained from these places. Google has it's place in gaining knowledege, but so does a good book.

Take dieting for example. There are many teens asking here for info about weightloss whereas a visit to their local library, with a variety of books about nutrition, would also provide them with information on the subject.

although you could have found this question answered thousands or time in the results from Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, or Bing

unless you use good search words you can get pages or unhelpful links ( try searching "the voice" when you are looking for the audio drama from Two Minute Danger Theater)

there are also an entertainment and a social aspects of Y!A

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because you want more feedback and opinions(personal opinions) and if its for a project the chances of your teacher finding out you plagarized from a site from google are higher than the chances of your teaches finding out that you stole the info from someone on Yahoo Answers.

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Because it adds a "real person" element to the answer, instead of just a clinical, dry factual output.

I could understand if they were fun to answer, but you know, when somebody asks how many water parks there are in Tuscaloosa, I have to wonder why

Bcoz sometimes it's good to know things through someone's personal experiences

They want others opinions, or they couldn't find the right answer from Google...