What’s behind Answers.com? MediaPost’s Online Media Daily has the details as explained by Bob Rosenschein, founder and CEO of the questions and answers site: Searching For Answers (.com)
Here’s a summary from this weekend’s article about Answers.com – what’s been happening and where we’re going in 2011:
- The company provides licensed content from 250 encyclopedias and dictionaries for free. Two weeks ago, the company added the Random House Word Menu containing related words — not only synonyms, but concepts.
- Both the user interface and the backend system will get an overhaul this year. An automatic reputation management system is in the works. It measures statistical factors such as capitalization and spelling to estimate the quality of a community-contributed answer.
- A new user interface dubbed “Project Aqua” will roll out in the coming months. New social features will help users tie their Answers.com activity into their social graphs.
Read the full article at MediaPost.
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You left out the fun part:
“The company’s profitable — we have $25 million in the bank, we’re the eighteenth-largest audience and growing, and we’re just having fun,” Rosenschein says. “You’ll see us work with Twitter and Google
There seem to be a lot of great things to look forward to this year for wikianswer fanatics. I wish you all the best!