Answers.com's WikiAnswers Tops One Million Questions

Q&A Community Activity Continues to Grow Steadily

    NEW YORK, October 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Answers Corporation
 ( ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine offering
 Answers.com(TM) and WikiAnswers.com(TM), announced today that WikiAnswers
 (http://wiki.answers.com) has passed the one million question milestone.
     The millionth question, placed in the Science and Environment category,
 was "Are there readily available substitutes for gold in industrial
 applications?", asked at 12:22 pm EST. WikiAnswers currently contains over
 2,100 categories of questions.
     "We are thrilled by this achievement," said Jay Bailey, Director of
 Marketing and Community Development. "The rate at which our community of
 contributors is growing is testament to the attractiveness of the
 WikiAnswers approach."
     According to analysis using ComScore data (comScore Media Metrix, US
 Top 1500 Web Domains Report, January 2007 vs. September 2007, Ranked by %
 Change), for the first nine months of this year, WikiAnswers unique monthly
 visitor count in the U.S. has grown 317%, to over four million. This ranks
 WikiAnswers as the second-fastest growing domain of the top 1,500.
     Bailey noted that yesterday, registered users grew by 1,867, a new
 daily record. "The site's features continue to improve, based almost
 exclusively on the requests and suggestions of the community, led by our
 talented and dedicated volunteer Supervisors. It takes the guesswork out of
 our development plan, as they know exactly what changes will yield a better
 experience for our contributors."
     WikiAnswers is a wiki-based website that is constantly improving,
 through the efforts of its dedicated question and answer community. It is
 the user generated content (UGC) component of Answers.com, where visitors
 share what they know and ask about what they don't. Wiki Q&As are 'living'
 documents, where answers are constantly being improved and updated over
 time. This ensures that no identical answer is developed in parallel, and
 that good answers can become great answers over time. The individual
 contributions yield information resources that are used again and again by
 almost half a million people a day.
     About Answers Corporation
     Answers Corporation ( ANSW) operates the award-winning
 Answers.com(TM) answer engine, delivering comprehensive content on over
 four million topics spanning health, finance, entertainment, business and
 more. Content includes over 180 licensed titles from leading publishers
 such as Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron's, Encyclopedia Britannica, All
 Media Guide and others; original articles written by Answers.com's
 editorial team; and user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com's
 industry-leading WikiAnswers(TM). Founded in 1999 by CEO Bob Rosenschein,
 Answers.com can be launched directly from within Internet Explorer 7,
 Firefox and Opera browsers, and its service is integrated into sites like
 The New York Public Libraries' homeworkNYC.org, The New York Times,
 CBSNews.com and others. Answers.com is also available for mobile devices at
 mobile.answers.com.
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     Technology PR for Answers.com
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