Profile: Answers Corporation (ANSW.O)

Answers Corporation, incorporated in December 1998, is an online answer engine. The Company owns and operates Web properties known as WikiAnswers.com and Answers.com, which are dedicated to providing answers in several categories. WikiAnswers.com is a community generated social knowledge question and answer (Q&A) platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Answers.com includes content on topics from over 250 licensed sources created by publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron's and Encyclopedia Britannica. WikiAnswers.com and Answers.com had approximately 25.6 million visitors. Its subsidiary is Brainboost Technology, LLC, Interesting.com, Inc.

WikiAnswers.com

WikiAnswers.com is a user-generated content (UGC) community-based question and answer site where users ask questions and the community answers them. This question and answer site is differentiated from other question and answer sites which facilitate a forum where users can ask and answer questions, often repeating the same question in many different ways, but cannot improve upon or edit the questions or answers.

Answers.com

Answers.com aggregates topics in various categories including health and medical, legal, business and finance, science and technology, history, reference and language from brand-name publishers and other sources. Its technology combines and presents targeted information from disparate sources and delivers answers to users’ questions in a single consolidated view. Its content includes over 250 licensed titles from offline and online publishers. The publishers, from which the Company licenses content, include All Media Guide, Barron’s Educational Series, Encyclopedia Britannica, Houghton Mifflin Company, Oxford University Press and Gale.

1-Click Answers; AnswerTips; Web-Based AnswerTips

1-Click Answers is a tool that facilitates access to Answers.com. With 1-Click Answers installed on a computer, a user can click on a word or phrase within virtually any application, such as an e-mail, spreadsheet, document or database, and gain access to Answers.com’s online library. Answers.com content related to the word or phrase is displayed in an AnswerTips pop-up information bubble. Available for users of both Microsoft Windows and Apple’s Macintosh OS X, 1-Click Answers performs contextual analysis of the words or phrase clicked. The Company offers Web properties and blogs the ability to provide their users with the 1-Click functionality through its webmaster tool version of AnswerTips, which does not require a download. The Web version of AnswerTips is triggered when a visitor double-clicks a word or phrase on an AnswerTips-enabled site.

The Company competes with Yahoo! Answers, Askville, Live QnA, Yedda , Answerbag.com and Wikia, Inc., About.com., Dictionary.com, TheFreeDictionary.com, Wikipedia.org, Bankrate.com and WebMD.com, Google, Yahoo!, Microsoft, AOL and Ask.com.