User talk:BuyAns

BuyAns
BuyAns, the first pattern-based online system in the world for users to interactively ask and answer questions with payment returns. BuyAns is also an influential service provider for online information consultancy. As at October 2006, BuyAns has more than 300 registered users over the world, more than 10,000 question and answer pairs and more than 400 q/a patterns.

Name
BuyAns belongs to the Buy Answers Consultation Limited. “Buy” means buying, and “Ans” is the short-term of “answer”. The name BuyAns, has the meaning of repay for answer. The company slogan is “Answer what you ask”.

The former version of BuyAns is CuteAid, which is founded by Dr. Liu Wenyin (http://www.cs.cityu.edu.hk/~liuwy ). The development team members are Huang Guanglin, Chen Wei, Hao Tianyong, Feng Min, Cathy Sun and Jason Chan etc.

History
Oct 2003 Dr. Liu Wenyin first proposed the business model for online incentive and interactive question answering, which was a great innovation for the Internet technology.

Oct 2004 Huang Guanglin started to develop the first prototype of CuteAid.

Jun 2005 Chen Wei, Hao Tianyong, Feng Min joined in the QA development team and the development tool was changed to Microsoft.NET.

Aug 2005 The pattern technology is developed and applied on the CuteAid system.

Sept 2005 The answer clustering and fusion technology is developed and applied to the CuteAid system.

Dec 2005 The user reputation modeling technology is developed and applied to the CuteAid system.

Feb 2006 The muti-language versions of BuyAns system is developed.

Apr 2006 Cathy Sun and Jason Chan joined in the QA development team.

Apr 2006 The beta version of BuyAns is launched in the market.

Location
The head office of BuyAns is located at the Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong.

Business
The business contents of BuyAns include:

Online Consultancy

Online Survey

Enterprise Customer Service

Enterprise Internal Training Online Advertisement

Web Site
BuyAns http://www.buyans.com