PollDaddy has emerged as a slick polling service with pretty widgets, and has since grown to acquire a reported 300,000 polls since its launch last year. What to do with all that data? Make it searchable. This is PollDaddy's attempt to make a Yahoo Answers competitor, and this is even evident in the new feature's name: PollDaddy Answers. But instead of users asking open-ended questions and getting a thread of responses like a forum, PollDaddy of course focuses on polls.
All of the site's polls will be made searchable. Through this major new feature, PollDaddy users will have their own profile page with links to all of their polls, and each poll will have its own "profile page" as well, with comments, results, and information about the creator.
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What's interesting about this is that it can be used, in a larger sense, as a research tool for those that need results for certain questions and can turn to PollDaddy's existing data. Unfortunately, the most use others will get out of this, for the time being, is the ability to use these polls for their own use, as the data collected through PollDaddy is rather basic. There's no demographic data on the users that responded to the poll.
[img src="" caption="" credit="" alt=""]In some sense, the comments left by users may be more valuable then the poll's results, depending on the nature of the search query. If that's ever the case with PollDaddy Answers, then it's a good thing that comments and profile links will be part of the search directory for this new feature.