Now, here is the catch, there is a Yahoo search text box right below the question -- for your convenience so that you can avail their services, instead of turning to Google. Nice strategy! However, I think hard-core googlers will still turn to Google instead of using the Yahoo search option. I too, belonging to the same school of thought stuck with Google and it worked.. albeit I had to search a lil more harder because the answers for the questions were “optimized” with the Yahoo search results that would show the answers you need on the very first page!
I noticed this later and it did work! That brings me to another problem here. The contest has no doubt become popular owing to the juicy prizes up for grabs. That has also led to huge traffic heading towards the site and that seems to have affected its efficiency. It has become slow and unresponsive and too many “too many connections to the database” error messages are popping up. It would take at least five clicks to move away from the page -- once you answer a question. In my case, the page did not move further even after I entered the answer for the last question. The worst thing is the timer which continued to tick away -- making a mockery of the slogan seen on the top of the web page which says "Every second counts". DUH! On a slightly different note, I think Yahoo needs to do a bit of work on the QC part too. Spelling errors with error messages is the last thing they need! If you click the image below, see carefully what the error message says!
THAT for sure ain’t a good way to advertise your search engines Yahoo!
Update(15/10): Things have improved. Works fine now!
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