Very important: Make sure to verify your findings on Yahoo Answers. Due to the site's size and often unmonitored setup, you can certainly receive misinformation.

. A growing startup company recently featured in Forbes has brought back a level of crowdsourcing integrity that Yahoo Answers sometimes lacks. The site, Quora.com, is often described as a reverse-Wikipedia, where users can post and answer some of the most interesting and outlandish questions on the Internet.

Even more impressive is the growing list of insiders who post personal and in depth answers to your questions. It's not uncommon to see Craig Newman (founder of Craigslist) reply to a question, or Andrew 'Boz' Bosworth (a founding engineer with Facebook) provide a story only someone with firsthand knowledge can re-create. Questions fall between the opinion-based "What is the best sushi in San Francisco" to the most multifaceted, insider-only questions about current events, national security, cybercrime and much more.

With the same types of rules that govern Wikipedia, Quora keeps the questions and answers free from Internet trolls that could ruin such an important site. Quora is on my personal list of websites that the Internet was made for. To see my own Quora answers, check out Quora.com/Brandon-Gregg .

Message boards and forums can sometimes zero in on even more explicit answers. Looking for information about a security breach? Post on securityforum.com. Information about a rare breed of hairless cats? Sphynxlair.com. The passionate and daily users of these boards are always helpful in identifying the information you requested. Almost no question is too obscure, if you find the right community of interest.