Answers Corp's WikiAnswers.com Announces AnswerThon Winners as Q&A Site Hits Two Million Questions.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- Answers Corporation (NADSAQ: ANSW answ Answer ANSW Answers Corporation (stock symbol) ANSW Athletics New South Wales (Australia) ANSW Animated Sword (gaming) ANSW Ancient Semi Natural Woodland ) creators of the leading answer engine offering Answers.com[TM] and WikiAnswers.com[TM], today announced the winners of its first AnswerThon[TM] , a contest in which participants had 48 hours to answer as many questions as possible. The first-place winner submitted 552 valid entries. AnswerThon contestants tackled questions as part of the WikiAnswers "Social Knowledge" community; WikiAnswers is the user-generated Q&A site where visitors answer question about subjects they know and ask about subject they don't. Coinciding with the announcement, the question count on WikiAnswers surpassed two million with the question: "Where is the oil drain plug on a 2008 Toyota Sienna Not to be confused with Toyota Sienta. The Toyota Sienna is a minivan built in the United States for the North American market, and shares its platform and engine with the Toyota Camry. ?" According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Jay Bailey, Director of Community Development, "The growth trend here is phenomenal: It took five years to generate the first million questions, and then less than five months to go from one million to two million. It was exciting to have the AnswerThon contestants racing not only for prizes, but toward that milestone as well." The winners of the AnswerThon contest were: 1st Place: Aggie80 2nd Place: Steven Keyman 3rd Place: Zanzabe "We sensed real enthusiasm as over one thousand members of the WikiAnswers community from around the globe signed up to participate in the AnswerThon," added Bailey. "The competitive spirit is a constructive way to get the community even more energized and involved in the growth of this Social Knowledge phenomenon. We look forward to hosting more challenges like this in the future." About WikiAnswers.com WikiAnswers (http://wiki.answers.com) is the Social Knowledge-based community component of Answers.com, where visitors share what they know and ask about what they don't. WikiAnswers.com currently has over 200 supervisors and 639,958 members working on 2,050,454 questions, according to the site's counter today. Constantly improving through the efforts of its dedicated question and answer community, Wiki Q&As are 'living' documents, where answers are constantly being improved and updated over time. The individual contributions yield information resources (1) The data and information assets of an organization, department or unit. See data administration. (2) Another name for the Information Systems (IS) or Information Technology (IT) department. See IT. that are used again and again by almost half a million people a day. WikiAnswers was the #1 fastest growing domain of the top 1,500 in the U.S. in 2007, according to comScore. About Answers Corporation Answers Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ANSW) operates the award-winning Answers.com[TM] answer engine, delivering comprehensive content on over four million topics spanning health, finance, entertainment, business and more. Content includes over 180 licensed titles from leading publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Houghton Mifflin Company is a leading educational publisher in the United States. The company's headquarters is located in Boston's Back Bay. It publishes textbooks, instructional technology materials, assessments, reference works, and fiction and non-fiction for both young readers Company, Barron's, Encyclopedia Britannica, All Media Guide and others; original articles written by Answers.com's editorial team; and user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com's industry-leading WikiAnswers[TM]. Founded in 1999 by CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. Bob Rosenschein Bob Rosenschein is the owner of Israel-based Answers Corporation, formerly GuruNet, which operates Answers.com and Blufr.com. , Answers.com can be launched directly from within Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. 7, Firefox and Opera browsers, and its service is integrated into popular sites including The New York Public Libraries' homeworkNYC.org, The New York Times, CBSNews.com and others. Answers.com is also available for mobile devices at mobile.answers.com. For investment information, visit ir.answers.com. 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