The AnswerSniper software from Duncan Carver allows the user to benefit from the more than 60 million targeted visitors of Yahoo Answers to establish a profitable online business. This tool is designed to profit from the Web 2.0 phenomenon.

AnswerSniper bestows the user with the benefit of being the first to respond to prospective customers who have posed a query to Yahoo Answers. This will make the users authorities in their niche markets and will enable them to attract them to their Web sites for possible conversion into sales. This will also improve rankings of their sites. The power of AnswerSniper lies in its ability to automatically respond to 99 percent of the questions posed on Yahoo Answers.

The users only need to input the keywords and terms that they want of focus on into the AnswerSniper software, and when a query is posted on Yahoo Answers that is related to one or more of these particular keywords, the specific user is advised. This provides the particular user with the chance to offer the first reply to the question.

Some of the robust features of AnswerSniper include: the ability to input keywords that will look for related questions on Yahoo Answers; the capability to set up AnswerSniper to monitor Yahoo Answers at certain time periods, for any queries related to the keywords; the ability to subscribe to any of the keywords and to be informed via SMS or desktop the instant any query that is connected to those terms is posted; the capability to filter questions; the ability to save the results so that the user can return to them later; and the capability to maintain an archive of all queries that have been answered.

The AnswerSniper Lite Version is $97 and is restricted to marketing only one Web site. The AnswerSniper Professional Version is also available for $147 for making an unlimited number of profiles.