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June 5, 2008
Answers.com to Integrate with a Growing Wikianswers.com
Answers.com is planning to integrate some of sister site Wikianswers.com results in order to provide a better user experience, according to Reuters. Fast growth on Wikianswers.com is spurring what CEO Bob Rosenschein is calling a 'cross-pollination' of the sites. Included in the plans is a shared search bar.
Wikianswers has grown to 2 million page views per day, up from 250,000 a day in early 2007. The site is now at an 18.35% market share as of March 2008, stealing market share away from Yahoo! Answers, which dropped 21% from March 2007. Overall, traffic to answer sites grew 118% from March 2007 to March 2008.
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Posted by Nathania Johnson on June 5, 2008 12:49 PM
Comments
Answers has to be one of the most underachieving companies in operation. They have one of the coolest reference tools in their AnswerTips product that no one knows about or uses.
Jeff T June 6, 2008 12:08 AM
Answers should first look at displaying their results in a less cluttered format. Integrating content will only add to the confusion.
Doing a search for a topic with a substantial amount of content takes ages for the page to load. Once the page loads the user spends as much time scrolling through repetitive content entries usually to settle on the Wikipedia at the very bottom of the page. There has to be a better more user friendly way. Tabs?
Mike June 6, 2008 5:47 PM
