answers.com
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Answers.com (previously WikiAnswers and originally GuruNet) is an Internet-based knowledge exchange. The Answers.com domain name was purchased by entrepreneurs Bill Gross and Henrik Jones at idealab in 1996. The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet and then AFCV Holdings. The website is now the primary product of the Answers Corporation. It has tens of millions of user-generated questions and answers, and provides a website where registered users can interact with one another.
Key facts
- Website.name
- Answers Corporation
- Website.logo
- Answers.svg
- Website.logo_size
- 200px
- Website.logo_caption
- "The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions"
- Website.industry
- Internet
- Website.parent
- System1
- Website.language
- 6 languages
- Website.company_type
- Subsidiary
- Website.foundation
- (as GuruNet)
- Website.location_city
- St. Louis, Missouri
- Website.location_country
- United States
- Website.area_served
- Worldwide
- Website.num_employees
- 18
- Website.website_type
- Question & Answer
- Website.current_status
- Active
- Software.name
- Answers
- Software.operating system
- iOS, Android
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- knowledge market
- Headquarters
- St. Louis
- Owned by
- Apax Partners
- Official website
- www.answers.com
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- inception
- 1999-00-00
- Alexa rank
- 1638
- social media followers
- 24801
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Answers.com (previously WikiAnswers and originally GuruNet) is an Internet-based knowledge exchange. The Answers.com domain name was purchased by entrepreneurs Bill Gross and Henrik Jones at idealab in 1996. The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet and then AFCV Holdings. The website is now the primary product of the Answers Corporation. It has tens of millions of user-generated questions and answers, and provides a website where registered users can interact with one another.
==History== GuruNet was founded in Jerusalem during 1999 to develop technology that integrates or retrieves information from disparate sources and delivers the result in a single consolidated view to the user. GuruNet initially displayed its information through a downloadable software product, today known as 1-Click Answers. The product was launched as a free product in 1999. Beginning in 2003 it was sold to users on a perpetual license base and later as an annual subscription.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “answers.com” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.