5 Great Reasons to Use Answers.com

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1. The Web is a big place, and it's getting bigger.
Sometimes, you simply want a clear, straight-to-the-point, helpful answer. Answers.com's unique, patented technologies will help you find that answer — quicker and easier than traditional search engines. Search engines are terrific at indexing the web and giving you the tools to explore it. If you are trying to find, say, a taxidermist in Kansas City or the name of a Victorian Scottish woolen bonnet*, you'll probably find a page out there that will point you in the right direction. But if you need to know what pie in the sky means, when Steven Spielberg was born, or whether Aeschylating is a cromulent word, Answers.com is your new best friend with its free, one-stop reference tool.

2. We're more than just a website.
Answers.com provides several different ways to access over 4 million topics; it all depends on who you are and what you need. We've got IE and Firefox users covered with Answers.com access built right into the browser's search box. Mobile junkies can get their answers fix on the go from most wired PDAs. Webmasters have an array of tools to enhance their sites, and Mac fans don't have to feel left out, either. See all the Answers.com access products and add-ons we have for you here.

3. You can count on us.
Answers.com combines traditional and new media to provide you with the most up-to-date, accurate definitions and explanations available. On most topics, you'll see information from well-known, authoritative sources like Houghton-Mifflin, Columbia University Press, MarketWatch, Thomson Gale, Barrons, Investopedia, All Media Guide, Who2 and many more. On some topics you'll also find original articles written by Answers.com's editorial team, community-contributed articles from Wikipedia and/or user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com's industry-leading WikiAnswersTM (http://wiki.answers.com). Our topics range from business to technology, law to poetry, finance to nutrition, and culinary terms to mythology. No need to bookmark separate sites for cross-discipline reference; you'll find everything you need at Answers.com.

4. We're your first stage of research. Think of it as presearch.
People have different needs for research. Whether you're a student starting a research assignment, a journalist working on an article or someone simply pondering a bit of information, Answers.com is your one-stop guide to the initial research process and is often comprehensive enough to tell you all you need to know. For instance, let's say DaVinci was recently mentioned in a magazine. You're sure the reference was not to the artist, but want to know more. Answers.com will give you the choice, helping you to determine if it was the rock artist, the book or the computer chip.

5. It's 10 p.m. Do you know where your kids are surfing?
As the Internet has expanded to include resources on every topic a student needs, so have the inappropriate, incorrect, outdated and offensive sites on these same topics. Don't send your kids searching blindly on the Internet — teach them to look up topics on Answers.com, where they will find all the information they need for homework, test preparation and projects from a wide variety of safe, reliable sources. Best of all, with a "cite" button next to each of our copyrights listed at the bottom of the page, they will be able to prepare a bibliography in a snap.