WikiAnswers.com to Run AnswerThon(TM) for Charity July 26-27, 2008
2008-07-17 09:38:00
NEW YORK–(EMWNews)–Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creators of the leading answer
engine offering reference site Answers.com®
and social knowledge Q&A site WikiAnswers.comTM,
today announced its summer Charity AnswerThon, to be held July 26 – 27,
2008. The AnswerThons, held a few times each year, are organized online
events designed to foster the sharing of knowledge.
During the upcoming Charity AnswerThon, each registered contestant will
pick one of the five featured charities to support –
ArtWorks Foundation, CaringBridge,
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society or World
of Good ― and then answer as many
questions as possible on WikiAnswers.com,
sharing their knowledge and contributing to the collective effort of
others supporting their favorite charity. At the end of the competition,
the charity with the most contributions will receive a $5,000 donation
from Answers Corp. The second and third place charities will receive
$1,500 and $500, respectively.
Answers must be original work and can address unanswered questions in
any of WikiAnswers’ more than 3,200 categories. Anyone who is interested
in participating can learn more and sign up here:
http://wiki.answers.com/static/answerthon.html
“The AnswerThon is a great way to promote worldwide knowledge sharing
and with the special focus on charities in this round, we’re
pleased to be supporting worthwhile international causes,”
commented Liz Cohen, WikiAnswers Community Marketing Coordinator.
About Answers Corporation
Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) owns and operates Web properties
dedicated to providing useful answers in thousands of categories. The
award-winning reference site Answers.com
includes content on five million topics from over 180 licensed sources
from leading publishers, including Houghton Mifflin Company, Barron’s,
Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica. WikiAnswers.com
is a community-generated Social Knowledge Q&A platform, leveraging
wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of WikiAnswers’
growing community and dedicated supervisors, answers are constantly
improved and updated over time. WikiAnswers was ranked by comScore as
the fastest growing domain of the top 1,500 in the U.S. in terms of
unique monthly visitors in 2007. Answers.com is also available for
mobile devices at mobile.answers.com.
For investment information, visit ir.answers.com.
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