Answers.com

Type: Public
On the web: http://www.answers.com
Employees: 70
Employee growth: 6.1%

This company just needs you to pose the right question. Answers Corporation runs Answers.com, a free, ad-supported Internet search service. Unlike competing search engines, Answers.com's search results do not include a page of links; instead they return a snapshot of text culled by editors who use more than 250 licensed sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases from publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Barron's, and Encyclopedia Britannica. The company also owns and operates WikiAnswers.com, a dynamic questions and answers Web site collaboratively written and edited by a community of users. Answers Corporation was founded in 2005.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $14.2M
One year growth: 24.9%
Net income: ($12.3)M

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Robert S. (Bob) Rosenschein
CFO: Steven Steinberg
CTO: Jeff Schneiderman

Competitors:
Google
Wikimedia Foundation
Yahoo!

The leading reference site on the Web from Answers Corporation, New York & Jerusalem www.answers.com). Answers aggregates dictionary and encyclopedia content from more than 100 sources in all fields. For example, it holds a complete copy of Wikipedia, and in the technology arena, it features Computer Desktop Encyclopedia (what you are reading now). A "1-Click Answers" client for Windows and Mac can also be downloaded that enables users to click on any word in any page and retrieve its definition.

Founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein as GuruNet, later renamed Atomica, the company then offered a smaller amount of similar content, but featured the 1-Click client rather than a public Web site. The company changed its name back to GuruNet and then to Answers when it launched the Answers.com site in early 2005.

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Answers.com, the website of Answers Corporation (formerly GuruNet), provides relevant information — not a list of links — in response to users' queries.

The content is licensed from a variety of partners, including dictionaries, encyclopedias, and real-time data like weather reports, currency converters and stock tickers. Some is also produced in-house. The range is broad and comprehensive: there are over 4 million topics, from the text of Genesis Chapter 1 to today's hottest blogs and from Paris, France, to Paris of Troy to Paris Hilton.

Answers.com was launched to rave reviews in January 2, 2005 (Forbes magazine called it "the most useful, smartest, coolest, easiest-to-use Web innovation to come around in years")

Site visitors will also find special content for teachers, librarians, journalists, webmasters, bloggers and small businesses, plus free downloads of 1-Click Answers, which lets you just point and click to get a small pop-up with your answers, without even having a browser open. There's also a Today's Highlights page featuring history, birthdays and news.

Answers Corporation, the parent company of www.answers.com, was founded in January 1999 by Bob Rosenschein, Mort Meyerson and Mark Tebbe. Answers's common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange under the trading symbol ANSW.

For investor information, press releases, etc., visit http://ir.answers.com.

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