What is the relationship between Answers.com and WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers?

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Answers.com, WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswersWikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers are each part of the Answers.com brand. Answers.comAnswers.com (http://www.answers.com) aims to be the world's best place for answers. It is made up of both WikiAnswers, its community-oriented Q&A content, as well as ReferenceAnswers, the more traditional resources including dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, etc. If you look up a topic or ask a question on Answers.com, it will show you pages of information from either WikiAnswers or ReferenceAnswers - or in the case that it doesn't have an answer at all, you may get a web search. WikiAnswersWikiAnswers is a user-generated Q&A platform. All the questions and answers are asked and answered by Answers.com community members (as well as anonymous users). WikiAnswers has questions from thousands of different categories. ReferenceAnswersReferenceAnswers gives you information from over 200 different dictionaries and encyclopedias. With the exception of Wikipedia, this is published information that you can find in a hard cover version of each encyclopedia or dictionary. The facts are checked and each source is considered reliable by members of the academic community. International communitiesAnswers.com has five other language communities aside from the English site: German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Tagalog. These are all user-generated Q&A communities based on the WikiAnswers platform. VideoAnswersMany topic pages of Answers.com include helpful how-to and explanatory videos, produced by experts in hundreds of categories. Answers CorpAnswers Corporation is the official company that runs Answers.com and its sub brands, WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers. WikiAnswers is a Community Q&A website, while ReferenceAnswers is an online reference source, containing thousands of articles.

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