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Answers.com Breaks 4 Million Daily Query Milestone
NEW YORK, September 13, 2006 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) announced that on September 12 it achieved record traffic, breaking the 4.1 million query mark. For the previous seven days, the average was approximately 3.5 million daily queries. This compares with approximately 2.7 million average daily queries during Q2 2006. In addition, according to the research firm Hitwise, a leading competitive intelligence service, Answers.com recently achieved its highest rank to date, as the 165th most visited website worldwide. Answers.com's content library has reached approximately 3.8 million topics.
"Our traffic is coming back stronger than ever following the traditional summer slowdown," said Bob Rosenschein, founder and CEO of Answers.com. "Our strategy of adding relevant content, combined with focused marketing efforts and the end of the vacation season are driving our impressive traffic growth."
About Answers Corporation
Answers Corporation (NASD: ANSW) operates www.answers.com, which supplies answers covering 3.8 million topics to curious Internet users. Answers.com offers clear, authoritative content drawn from over 100 high-quality titles, as well as writing by its own editorial team. Founded in 1999 by CEO Bob Rosenschein, Answers Corporation also partners with, among others, Firefox, Opera, The New York Public Library and A9.com. For investment information, visit ir.answers.com. (answ-g)
Cautionary Statement
Some of the statements included in this press release are forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, including, but not limited to, statements regarding future market opportunity and future financial performance. For those statements, we claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Important factors may cause our actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, our inability to increase the number of persons who use our products, our inability to increase the number of partners who will generate increased traffic to our sites, our failure to maintain and improve the monetization of our products, a change in the algorithms and methods used by Google, the provider of almost all of our search engine traffic, and other search engines to identify web pages towards which traffic will ultimately be directed or a decision to otherwise restrict the flow of users visiting www.answers.com, a decision by Google, Inc. to discontinue directing user traffic to www.answers.com through its definition link and other risk factors identified from time to time in our SEC filings, including, but not limited to, our registration statement on Form S-3/A filed in May 2006 and declared effective in June 2006. Any forward-looking statements set forth in this press release speak only as of the date of this press release. We do not intend to update any of these forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances that occur after the date hereof. This press release and prior releases are available at www.answers.com. The information on Answers' website is not incorporated by reference into this press release and is included as an inactive textual reference only.
Answers.com Contacts:
Investor Contact:
Bruce D. Smith, CFA
VP of Strategic Development
bruce@answers.com
+1-646-502-4780
Press Contact:
Jay Bailey
Director of Marketing
j@answers.com
+1-888-248-9613
SOURCE Answers Corporation
Answers.com Contacts: Investor Contact: Bruce D. Smith, CFA, VP of Strategic Development, bruce@answers.com, +1-646-502-4780. Press Contact: Jay Bailey, Director of Marketing, j@answers.com, +1-888-248-9613
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