Why can't people do google or yahoo searches for themselves?

>>they are looking for a breadth of answers where the internet is going to funnel toward only a few certain ones.<<

I don't completely agree with that. The Internet can provide a variety of answers also. The trick is in knowing how to word your query and although that isn't always apparent at first, If you can phrase your question coherently on "Answers" you should be able to get a good search after a few tries. The problem with the internet is that anyone can claim to be an "expert" in some field or another. To paraphrase the Bible, by their words you shall know them. I tend to give more weight to a person's opinion if the have a few initials after their name.

What Yahoo Answers needs is a quick synopsis pasted in the main page here that advises people how to search for their own answers first. and to stop this ridiculous "point" system. It so often happens that people get on here that have no real knowledge they are on here mainl

Cut off my last sentence! It so often happens that people get on here that have no real knowledge, they are here mainly to amass points to advance to the next "level"