FAQ Farm founder
Chris Whitten was the founder of FAQ Farm.
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According to the "About" page on this site, WikiAnswers was previously known as FAQ Farm. FAQ Farm was founded in 2002 and then acquired by Answers Corporation in November 2006.
It was first founded in 2002 under the name of FAQ Farm (no month or day are given). In November 2006, FAQ Farm was subsumed under the domain of WikiAnswers, also known as Answers.com.
WikiAnswers was founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten.WikiAnswers was first named FAQ Farm.Answers Corporation bought FAQ Farm from Christ Whitten and re-named it WikiAnswers.WikiAnswers is one of the fastest growing websites in the world.WikiAnswers has over 600 volunteer supervisors.WikiAnswers has a warm and friendly community environment.WikiAnswers was originally called FAQ Farm, based on the term 'Frequently Asked Questions.'FAQ Farm was founded by Chris Whitten.WikiAnswers is based on wiki technology, which means anyone can edit the questions and answers in order to improve them.
That depends on what you mean by Answers.com. The question and answer part of the site (WikiAnswers) was originally FAQ Farm, and was founded by Chris Whitten. Bob Rosenschein founded Gurunet, which became Answers.com, which then bought FAQ Farm and turned it into WikiAnswers. David Karandish started AnnounceMedia and a group of companies that eventually bought Answers.com, including WikiAnswers. Each part of the history of the site has a different founder, but if you are referring to the Q&A content, the original founder was Chris Whitten.
FAQ Farm no longer exists under that name. That was one of the sites that Answers absorbed.
There was no special significance to the pig in FAQ Farm's logo. We used a farm metaphor for the site because our mission is to grow questions and answers. Playing on the farm metaphor, we used graphics of farm animals.
FAQ Farm is the old name of this website. We used to call it "FAQ Farm: The WikiAnswers Community." It's always been about "wiki answers," even before we adopted wiki software in 2004. Starting in 2002, this site has been a place to grow individuals' questions and answers into FAQ-style answer resources for the whole world to use.
FAQ Farm was the original name.
It was originally founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten as FAQ Farm. In 2004 the Q&A site became a wiki. In November 2006, it was acquired by Answers.com. So as of 2015, WikiAnswers is 13 years old.
It was, but not in its current status. Yahoo! Answers was launched December, 2005. WikiAnswers, originally FAQ Farm, was founded in 2002, later being taken in by Answers Corporation in November, 2006.
WikiAnswers, previously known as FAQ Farm, was acquired by Answers Corporation in November 2006 and is now part of the Answers.com family. It was founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten, a pioneer in the Q&A arena.
If by "this service" you mean FAQ Farm, then yes, it is very valuable.