Type: Public
On the web: http://www.answers.com
Employees: 70
Employee growth: 6.1%

This company just needs you to pose the right question. Answers Corporation runs Answers.com, a free, ad-supported Internet search service. Unlike competing search engines, Answers.com's search results do not include a page of links; instead they return a snapshot of text culled by editors who use more than 250 licensed sources, including encyclopedias, dictionaries, and atlases from publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Barron's, and Encyclopedia Britannica. The company also owns and operates WikiAnswers.com, a dynamic questions and answers Web site collaboratively written and edited by a community of users. Answers Corporation was founded in 2005.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2008:
Sales: $14.2M
One year growth: 24.9%
Net income: ($12.3)M

Officers:
Chairman, President, and CEO: Robert S. (Bob) Rosenschein
CFO: Steven Steinberg
CTO: Jeff Schneiderman

Competitors:
Google
Wikimedia Foundation
Yahoo!

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