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it was the name of Answers.com until it got changed to Answers.com in 1999.
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Who starded Answers.com?
Bob Rosenschein founded Answers Corporation (then called GuruNet) in December 1998.
What year was Answers.com created?
It began in 1999 - when it was (then) called Gurunet. See the related link for more details on the history.
Is answers dot com an Israeli company?
Answers.com was founded as the Israeli company GuruNet but has since established its headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.
Why did WikiAnswers choose green and blue as its colors?
WikiAnswers is a sister-site to Answers.com, which is owned by Answers Corp. In 2005, when Answers.com was created, the colors green and blue were chosen for the site logo. That was an influence of an earlier site of Answers Corp, Gurunet.
Is Answers.com old?
Answers.com is established.Old sounds so... old! Answers.com as we know it today was launched in January 2005. The actual company has been running since 1999 under other names such as GuruNet and Atomica in a slightly different environment.
Is Answers.com real?
Yes, Answers.com is a real website. It was started in 2005, created from a former brand called Gurunet. Today it is a place for answers about anything, and its community answers (WikiAnswers, formerly FAQ Farm) is a user-generated source for direct answers to specific questions.
How old is this site is?
This is actually hard to answer specifically because the question is ambiguous. The roots of Answers.com began in 1999 as GuruNet. Users accessed the information through software called 1-Click Answers. On, January 2005, the company moved to a free for access model, using Answers.com as the name. The company's shares started trading on NASDAQ rather than AMEX under the symbol "ANSW" on August 2, 2005. On October 17, 2005, GuruNet changed its corporate name to Answers Corporation. By late 2009, Answers.com launched a new version of their website. This combined wiki style contributions with expert resources.
What day and month did Robert Rosenschein create Answers.com?
Answers.com, the company, formerly named GuruNet, was incorporated on January 3, 1999. Answers.com, the product, was announced on January 2, 2005. Later that year, 2005, the company was officially renamed, too, to Answers Corporation (NASDAQ:ANSW).
What year was this website publushed?
Well, several million answers again this site began as Gurunet in 1999. It has gone through several mergers and name changes since then. Content is loaded to the site every few seconds- but questions get answered when people (like you) answer the ones they know an answer for.
When was Answers.com founded?
Answers.com was founded as GuruNet in 1999. The company has undergone many changes since then, but evolved into Answers.com in 2005.Answers.com was founded in 1999 by Bob Rosenschein. The current site is the result of an evolution of company concepts and names over the years.FAQ Farm, the site that later became known as WikiAnswers when it was bought by Answers.com, was founded by Chris Whitten in 2002.Answers.com contains over 20 millions questions and answers in its community-generated database, as well as over 7 million articles from over 300 reference sources (encyclopedias, dictionaries, etc.).Read more: wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_founded_Answers.com#ixzz22flQwFdhNOTE that this is copy/pasted from answers.com page itself.
Why was this company made in the first place?
Answers was originally GuruNet. It was started to provide answers to questions for a subscription fee. After it became Answers, they felt the subscription model was a barrier to attracting users, so they moved to an advertising-supported model, and one where users provided the content. To stay afloat, Answers has diversified and has other products besides the wiki part.
How did Answers.com get started?
In 2005, the company known as Gurunet ( a paid-info service) changed its name to Answers.com and provided its content for free. Back then, it was reference content only, comprised of licensed publications covering a few million topics. Now, Answers.com has grown to include community-generated Q&As (WikiAnswers) and video answers, in addition to its original ReferenceAnswers content (which is still growing).
