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WikiAnswers Now Has Over 1 Million Questions

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WikiAnswers doesn’t know how popular it will become.  It’s also unable to tell me how to peel an egg, how to make a J-turn, or why Guinness tastes so good.  But in any event, WikiAnswers has reached and passed the million-question milestone.

If you don’t know what WikiAnswers is, the site’s name should be enough to tip you off.  WikiAnswers isn’t directly related to Wikimedia or Wikipedia, however; instead, it’s owned by the same company that runs Answers.com.

That company (Answers Corporation) is quite proud of WikiAnswers, and rightly so – it reports, “for the first nine months of this year, WikiAnswers unique monthly visitor count in the U.S. has grown 317%, to over four million.  This ranks WikiAnswers as the second-fastest growing domain of the top 1,500.”

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Also, on October 30th, “registered users grew by 1,867, a new daily record,” according to Answers Corporation.  Granted, those users (and/or the site’s owners) still have some work to do – I think there should at least be an answer to the eggshell question – but the rate of growth is nonetheless impressive.

As for the future, that appears to be largely up to the users themselves – company execs are pleased with where their suggestions have taken the site so far, and don’t appear anxious to make any major changes in the near future.

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  • http://wiki.answers.com Crystal Williams

    Hey Dave:

    My name is Crystal Williams, and I am the Community Coordinator for WikiAnswers. I loved your article. Thank you for taking the time to write it. We, too, think that WikiAnswers is quite unique and has unlimited potential. I hope you don’t mind, I took the liberty of posting your questions on the site. Soon after, they were all answered. This is the beauty of WikiAnswers. Not every question has been asked. So I encourage you to post your questions, so that others have the opportunity to answer them. That way they’ll become permanent information resources for all who follow. Here are direct links to those mystery questions:

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_Guinness_taste_so_good

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_peel_an_egg

    http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_do_you_make_a_J-turn

    The last one could use some cleaning up. Do you know how to make a J-turn? If so, share your knowledge! ;-)

    Crystal

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