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Part of the revenue is distributed each year to eligible student applicants in the form of the WikiAnswers Scholarship.
While everyone needs money at some point, it doesn't need money from you, the asker. It gets enough from advertising on the various pages to sustain itself as a free and volunteer service - nobody pays to ask, or to answer, and nobody gets paid for their time (although small bonuses do get given out to some contributors as thanks for their particularly hard work).
Yes, WikiAnswers is a for-profit organization, which makes its revenue from advertising.
WikiAnswers is not here to provide advertising space via questions.
Advertising companies pay for space on Facebook pages, the amount of advertising money Facebook gets it larger than the amount it spends on it's workforce and servers, so Facebook makes profit.
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Advertising enables WikiAnswers to be free for all users. It pays for the programming and development, hosting, and bandwidth for the servers. Unlike Wikipedia which is a non-profit and requires hundreds of thousands of dollars in user donations, users of WikiAnswers are never solicited for contributions. The cost of this is putting up with some advertising.
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WikiAnswers is not here to provide advertising space via questions.
WikiAnswers is ad-supported, meaning that people pay WikiAnswers to display ads on their website. When people click the ads on WikiAnswers, WikiAnswers receives money. WikiAnswers may also get money from partnerships with other websites.Answers.com makes a profit from wikianswers when you click on the textual advertisements provided by Google.
Advertising keeps the economy going through obvious means. Advertising persuades consumer buying impulses to buy products, through the purchases businesses make money, people keep jobs, and government gets it's taxes.
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