gutefrage.net
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Type of site | Advice community |
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| Available in | German |
| Owner | Markus Wölflick, Dr. Stephan Roppel |
| URL | www |
| Commercial | Yes |
| Registration | Required for participation |
| Users | c.4.5 million (daily, as of February 2021)[citation needed] |
| Launched | 2006 |
| Current status | Active |
gutefrage.net(commonly known and stylized in its logo asgutefrage;fromGermangute Frage,which means "good question" ) is a Germanquestion and answer websitewithout topic specialization.
The website is financed byadvertisement,but it is possible to pay to use the site without advertisements. The user-generated content is freely available to platform users and cannot necessarily be changed or deleted by content creators at will. Content is only allowed in German, with the exception of quotes, meanings, or specific translations.[1]
History
[edit]In 2006, gutefrage.net went online as the first self-initiated startup by Holtzbrinck eLAB, asubsidiaryof theHoltzbrinck Publishing Group.[2]The website has developed into the most-used product of the Gutefrage Group[3]and, regarding its content growth and page views, has become one of the largest forums in the German-speaking world.[4]According to its own reports, the company crossed theirprofit thresholdin 2009.[5]
Towards the end of 2012, amobileversion of the website went online;applicationsforAndroidandiOSfollowed in December 2013.[4]
On December 7, 2016, thelogoforgutefrage.netwas renewed in honor of the site's tenth birthday. The new logo shows twospeech bubbles;the smaller bubble on the left is intended to represent a question, whereas the larger bubble on the right is intended to represent an answer. In conjunction with this change, the added ".net" was removed from the logo.[6]
In June 2020,gutefrage.netentered into a collaboration withAmazon,whereby thevirtual assistantAlexais able to access selected posts from the platform and play back answers to user questions.[7]
In 2020, themajority shareofgutefrage.netwas purchased by United Vertical Media GmbH, anaffiliateof Müller Medien. As of February 2021, the website contains over 24 million questions with more than 94 million answers.[8][9]
Concept
[edit]The internet forum allows users to ask and answer questions of other users.[10]
The site is composed primarily ofuser-generated content.User posts are rewarded with an internalgamificationsystem which is based on ratings given by other users. Users with a significant level of engagement within a given topic are, after individual verification bygutefrage.netemployees, distinguished as "experts."[10]
Aside from asking and answering questions, users can communicate with each other via private messages. Askers have the option to select the most helpful answers to each of their questions; the selected answer is then visibly accentuated.[10]
Facts and data
[edit]As of 2021, the platform reported around 1.85 million active users, 27 million questions, and over 100 million answers. The website's monthlynet reachaccounted for 30 millionunique users.A given question can expect to receive an average of four answers, with 72% of questions being answered within the first five minutes. Users post a monthly average of 255,000 questions ongutefrage.net.[3]
References
[edit]- ^"Richtlinien".gutefrage.net.Retrieved2020-10-27.
- ^online, heise (17 January 2007)."Holtzbrinck gründet Ratgeber-Startup" gutefrage.net "".heise online(in German).Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^ab"Gutefrage: Über uns - gutefrage"(in German). 2019-05-19. Archived fromthe originalon 19 May 2019.Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^ab"gutefrage gruppe - Wir sind ein auf Ratgeberseiten spezialisiertes Online-Unternehmen. Wir bringen Millionen von Menschen zusammen"(in German). 2015-05-18. Archived fromthe originalon 18 May 2015.Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^Becker, Alexander (2010-02-09)."Holtzbrincks Gutefrage meldet Break-even | MEEDIA"(in German). Archived fromthe originalon 8 December 2022.Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^"Warum hat gutefrage.net das Logo geändert? (gutefrage)"(in German). 2016-12-07. Archived fromthe originalon 7 December 2016.Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^"Deutschland fragt – gutefrage und Alexa antworten!".gutefrage.net(in German).Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^"Jubiläum: 15 Jahre gutefrage".gutefrage.net(in German).Retrieved2021-02-15.
- ^"Holtzbrinck Digital verkauft gutefrage.net und highfivve".new-business.de.Retrieved2022-04-13.
- ^abc"Wie funktioniert Gutefrage.net".gutefrage(in German).Retrieved2022-04-13.
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