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WikiAnswers.com Ranked Fastest Growing U.S. Domain in 2008


Published on 2009-01-28 06:40:24, Last Modified on 2009-01-28 06:40:59 - Market Wire
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NEW YORK--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine offering Answers.com® and WikiAnswers.com™, announced today that according to analysis using comScore data (comScore, US Top 200 Web Domains Report, December 2007 vs. December 2008, ranked by % change), WikiAnswers' unique monthly visitor count in the U.S. grew 154%, to nearly 16.5 million. This ranks WikiAnswers as the fastest growing domain in 2008, of the top 200 in the U.S. as measured by unique monthly visitors. See [ http://site.answers.com/main/pressresources/comScore_top_200_Dec_through_Dec_2008.pdf ] for a list of the top 20.

"We continue to be excited by the rate at which the community contributes content to our unique wiki-Q&A platform," said Bob Rosenschein, Chairman and CEO. "Our goal is to build the world's largest and most useful Q&A database. We aim to cultivate a vibrant community and invest in the quality of answers generated by its members."

About Answers Corporation

Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) owns and operates Web properties dedicated to providing useful answers in thousands of categories - [ Answers.com ] and [ WikiAnswers.com ]. The award-winning reference site Answers.com includes content on five million topics from over 180 licensed sources from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron's and Encyclopedia Britannica. Answers.com is also available for mobile devices at [ http://mobile.answers.com ]. WikiAnswers.com is a community-generated Social Knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of WikiAnswers' large and growing community, answers are constantly improved and updated over time. WikiAnswers was ranked by comScore as the fastest growing domain of the top 200, in the U.S. in terms of unique monthly visitors in 2008. (answ-g)

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