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Answers.com Connects with Social Media


Published on 2010-01-07 19:40:23 - Market Wire
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LAS VEGAS--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--At the CES Conference today [ Answers.com ]® (NASDAQ: ANSW), the world's leading Q&A site, announced that it is connecting its global community with leading social sites Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo!. Users will now have the option to log in to Answers.com with their preferred Web identities. Experts will also be able to identify themselves with their real names, more conveniently building their online reputations.

"We see a big advantage in allowing our contributors to use their existing Web identities on our site"

"We see a big advantage in allowing our contributors to use their existing Web identities on our site," said Bob Rosenschein, CEO. "This change is expected to simplify login, reduce time to contribution, and increase the quality of our answers, as more people visit our site and build their online reputations. We added support for Facebook, Twitter and Yahoo! accounts today and will be adding support for Google accounts in the near future."

Visit the Answers.com booth at ShowStoppers Media Event, at CES, on Thursday, January 7, 2010 in the Lafite Ballroom at the Wynn Las Vegas, from 6 pm to 10 pm PST.

[ Answers.com ], [ WikiAnswers ] and [ ReferenceAnswers ] are trademarks of Answers Corporation. All other marks belong to their respective owners.

About Answers Corporation

Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) owns and operates [ Answers.com ], the leading Q&A site, which includes [ WikiAnswers ] and [ ReferenceAnswers ]. The site supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Tagalog (Filipino). WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of its large and growing community, answers are improved and updated over time. The award-winning ReferenceAnswers includes content on millions of topics from over 250 licensed dictionaries and encyclopedias from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin, Barron's and Encyclopedia Britannica. (answ-g)

For investor information, visit [ http://ir.answers.com ].

Follow [ www.Answers.com ] on Twitter as [ http://twitter.com/answersdotcom ]

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