Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer
engine offering Answers.com® and WikiAnswers.com™ announced that it has
received a 2009 Webware 100 award for the reference category by
Webware.com, a CNET site.
The Webware 100 Awards recognize the best Web 2.0 sites, services and
applications that are leading the next wave of innovation. Editors at
CNET’s Webware.com evaluated 6,000 web sites, services and applications
nominated by Internet users. From the 6,000 nominees, Webware's editors
selected 300 finalists. Earlier this year, the public began casting
their votes for the best 100 products, 10 each in 10 categories. A
complete list of the winners can be found at www.webware.com/100.
“We thank the readership community and the editors at CNET for naming
Answers.com a winner," said Bob Rosenschein, CEO of Answers Corporation.
"We will continue enhancing our products with the goal of providing
people the most useful, usable answers on the Internet."
"This annual listing has become such an essential resource for people
who want to learn more about Web 2.0 and the many ways it can help them
stay connected," said Rafe Needleman, editor at Webware and CNET. "The
Web 2.0 community and our editors ultimately selected the very best
sites, services and applications that have made a lasting impression."
About Answers Corporation
Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) owns and operates Web properties
dedicated to providing useful answers in thousands of categories - Answers.com
and WikiAnswers.com.
The award-winning reference site Answers.com includes content on
millions of topics from over 250 licensed sources from leading
publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron's and
Encyclopedia Britannica. Answers.com is also available for mobile
devices at http://mobile.answers.com.
WikiAnswers.com is a community-generated Social Knowledge Q&A platform,
leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of
WikiAnswers.com's large and growing community, answers are constantly
improved and updated over time. WikiAnswers.com was ranked by comScore
as the fastest growing domain of the top 200, in the U.S., in terms of
unique monthly visitors in 2008. (answ-g)
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