Answers Corporation, creators of Answers.com, has acquired FAQ Farm, a wiki-based website containing a content-rich, cross-disciplinary library of user-contributed questions and answers, for $2 million.


Answers Corporation, creators of Answers.com, has acquired FAQ Farm, a wiki-based website containing a content-rich, cross-disciplinary library of user-contributed questions and answers, for $2 million.

FAQ Farm was founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten. FAQ Farm generates 12 million pageviews per month. The site has 280,000 unique questions and answers on its website, and 100,000 registered ‘FAQ Farmer’ contributors, according to Answers.com.

Chris Whitten will continue to work for FAQ Farm, and will integrate the site’s content and technology into Answers.com.

Bob Rosenschein, CEO of Answers.com, said: “The acquisition of FAQ Farm is the next logical step forward in our mission of becoming the leading online answer-engine, whether answers come from our existing library of licensed, branded, attributable reference titles, from the web, or now from a community of experts or interested participants,

We aim to satisfy our growing dedicated user base by expanding beyond our strength in traditional reference material to embrace the community aspect of learning”. [source]

The initial integration of FAQ Farm into Answers.com will be launched in Q1 2007.

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About Answers Corporation

Answers Corporation operates Answers.com. Answers.com offers clear, authoritative content drawn from over 100 high-quality titles, as well as writing by its own editorial team.

About FAQ Farm

FAQ Farm was founded in 2002 by Chris Whitten, a pioneer in the Q&A arena, who realized that the wiki model could be used to prevent the same questions from being asked repetitively, and enable answers to be improved upon collaboratively so that they combine different people’s perspectives and experience.

 

 

 

 

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