SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwire - June 1, 2010) - PeerPong, the largest index of expertise on the Web, today launched the beta version of its service, aiming to let anyone with a question find the right person to answer it. The company, which has been developing its PeerRank technology for more than a year, is taking a new approach to answering questions, focused on finding the best person to answer any question by going beyond social networks and community walls to tap anyone with a public profile on the Web. The consumer service is free and anyone can register to use it.
"Until now, there hasn't been a great way for someone to find the best person to ask questions that require personal experience for a satisfying answer," says Ro Choy, CEO of PeerPong. "PeerPong was created to access the expertise that we all have but don't always express. We want to make it incredible easy for anyone to show what they're knowledgeable about and match it to people looking for an expert across any subject. We make it fun and easy to find an expert or be an expert."
PeerPong takes a sophisticated, multi-faceted approach to find the best person to answer any question promptly. With its patent-pending technology, PeerPong analyzes available information online to discover what people are really knowledgeable about and match them with relevant questions. The service also makes it easy for anyone to weigh in on whether knowledgeable people are experts. PeerPong doesn't rely on friends of friends or feel-good motivations to deliver a fast answer, or crowd-sourcing to find a "best" answer. Instead, PeerPong looks for the best person for a specific question and empowers and incentivizes knowledgeable people in a variety of ways to encourage them to share their expertise.
PeerPong believes it's all about the people behind the expert knowledge -- and that the bigger and broader the pool of experts, the more useful PeerPong is to everyone. With its fast-growing PeerRank, a "page rank for people" currently several million strong, PeerPong takes care of all the tricky stuff to make it easy for anyone with a question to find the right person to answer it. Whether amateur (a mother who knows the latest toddler trends) or professional (a sports trainer that specializes in rehabilitating elite athletes), anyone can be an expert on PeerPong.
Currently, PeerPong features experts across 14 major categories, including shopping, health, business, technology, autos, and beauty, as well as dozens of subcategories. The service uses public Twitter updates and users can privately tap into their Facebook network so that PeerPong can match questions with the right people.
With PeerPong, anyone looking for an expert answer can:
- Ask questions on any topic
- Access millions of knowledgeable people
- Find top recommended experts and pose questions directly
- Ask friends and family through existing social networks
PeerPong lets experts:
- Raise their profile and share their expertise more broadly
- Be recognized for their expertise through recommendations and badges
- Add a personalized widget to their blog so readers can ask questions directly (and anonymously, if desired)
About
PeerPong is the world's largest index of expertise. The free service makes it fun and easy to find the right person to answer any question. PeerPong's PeerRank is constantly improving and growing, indexing people based on their publicly demonstrated interest.
Learn more about PeerPong and its approach to providing expert answers on the PeerPong blog at http://blog.peerpong.com/
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