WikiAnswers Community-Driven Q&A Available in French, Italian, German and Spanish
Paris, France – December 8, 2009 – Answers Corporation (NASDAQ:ANSW), creators of the leading answer engine Answers.com® which includes the properties WikiAnswers® and ReferenceAnswers™,, announced today at LeWeb ’09 availability of the site in French, Italian, German and Spanish. Adding the most widely spoken European languages to Answers.com extends the power of the popular wiki Q&A platform beyond its English language user base.
“The unique nature of a wiki is a powerful paradigm that sets Answers.com apart in this space,” said Bruce D. Smith, Chief Strategic Officer, who leads the community development team. “Given our 6 million answers in over 5,500 categories in English, adapting our product for these popular international languages provides an exciting new community element to users around the world who are looking for answers.”
“Our English-language sites reached an audience of 56 million in the U.S. in October, according to comScore, ranking us #15; we reached a total audience of 84 million worldwide, ranking #28,” said Bob Rosenschein, Answers.com CEO. “Support for these versions is just the beginning of our support for the multilingual community.”
This week, in Paris, Answers.com is sponsoring LeWeb ’09, a leading European conference dedicated to emerging technologies, social media, and the web. Answers.com is also a sponsor of the TravelingGeeks tour to LeWeb, a consortium of thought leaders, bloggers, writers and entrepreneurs who travel to countries to learn, educate, share, evaluate, and promote new technologies.
Links to the new language versions:
Spanish: http://es.answers.com
French: http://fr.answers.com
Italian: http://it.answers.com
German: http://de.answers.com
About Answers Corporation
Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) owns and operates Answers.com, the leading Q&A site, which includes WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers. The site supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Tagalog (Filipino). WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of its large and growing community, answers are improved and updated over time. The award-winning ReferenceAnswers includes content on millions of topics from over 250 licensed dictionaries and encyclopedias from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin, Barron’s and Encyclopedia Britannica.
About LeWeb
Started in 2005, LeWeb is the largest, most renowned conference in Europe focused on the web and emerging technologies. In 2008, LeWeb gathered 1,800 participants in Paris from 40 countries. More than a technology conference, LeWeb, currently in its 6th Edition, covers important trends across a number of wide-reaching topics. For more information, visit: http://www.leweb.net/leweb.
For investor information, visit http://ir.answers.com.
Media Contact:
Renee Blodgett
Magic Sauce Media
617.620.9664
renee at answers dot com
Investor Contact:
John McNamara
Cameron Associates
212.554.5485
john@cameronassoc.com
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