Answers Corp. Announces WikiAnswers WAmmy Awards.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 Corp. (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 answ Answer ANSW Answers Corporation (stock symbol) ANSW Athletics New South Wales (Australia) ANSW Animated Sword (gaming) ANSW Ancient Semi Natural Woodland ) today announced the winners of the 2008 WAmmy Awards at http://wiki.answers.com/static/wammy_awards_2008.html. The WikiAnswers WAmmy Awards is an annual contest held to honor excellence in contributing to WikiAnswers, the collaborative knowledge-sharing Q&A community where anybody can ask questions or answer the questions of others. All contributors are eligible to win awards. Depending on the category, winners are determined through either voting by the WikiAnswers volunteer supervisor community or raw contribution numbers. This year's WAmmy Awards were presented in a number of categories, ranging from "Best Researched Answer" to "Funniest Question." Awards were also given to the best "Top Category Answerers". Bob Rosenschein Bob Rosenschein is the owner of Israel-based Answers Corporation, formerly GuruNet, which operates Answers.com and Blufr.com. , 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. of Answers Corporation offered his congratulations to the winners, and added, "We are witnessing the power of thousands of volunteers in the WikiAnswers community sharing their knowledge and passion. The result is a Q&A database which is greater than the sum of its parts." 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 five million topics from over 180 licensed sources from leading publishers, including 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 and Encyclopedia encyclopedia, compendium of knowledge, either general (attempting to cover all fields) or specialized (aiming to be comprehensive in a particular field). Encyclopedias and Other Reference Books 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' large and growing community, answers are constantly improved and updated over time. WikiAnswers 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) For investment information, visit http://ir.answers.com. |
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