Answers.com
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| Type of business | Private |
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Type of site
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Question & Answer |
| Available in | English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Tagalog |
| Founded | 1999 (as GuruNet) |
| Headquarters | St. Louis, Missouri, United States |
| Owner | Apax Partners |
| Founder(s) | Bob Rosenschein, Mark Tebbe |
| Slogan(s) | The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions. |
| Website | www |
| Alexa rank |
 520 (September 2016[update]) |
| Launched | January 2005 |
| Current status | Active |
GuruNet was founded in Jerusalem, Israel, in 1999 to develop technology that intelligently and automatically integrates and retrieves information from disparate sources and delivers the result in a single consolidated view to the user. GuruNet initially displayed its information through a downloadable software product, today known as 1-Click Answers. The product was launched as a free product in 1999. Beginning in 2003 it was sold to users on a perpetual license base and later as an annual subscription.
On October 2004 GuruNet had an IPO on the (AMEX) under the symbol "GRU" and also acquired the Answers.com domain name early the same year for $80,000.
On January 2005 the company moved to a new business model of a free-to-customer product, Answers.com and 1-Click Answers software, containing practically all the content that was sold via subscriptions. The new model is based on generating advertising revenue.
On August 2, 2005, the company's shares started trading on NASDAQ instead of AMEX under the symbol "ANSW".
On October 17, 2005, GuruNet changed its corporate name to Answers Corporation, unifying the company's name and its website, Answers.com.
From 2005 to late 2009, the Google search engine definitions feature, in the top-right corner of the site, was linked to Answers.com.
On July 2, 2006, Answers.com released a trivia game known as blufr.
At Jeff Pulver's 140 Characters Conference in New York City in April 2010, Answers.com launched its alpha version of a Twitter-answering service nicknamed 'Hoopoe.' When tweeting a question to the site's official Twitter account, @AnswersDotCom, an automatic reply is given with a snippet of answer and a link to the full answer page on Answers.com.
Aside from providing community-generated Q&A and reference information for published titles, Answers.com began offering videos as part of its VideoAnswers library, in July 2010. This was part of a partnership with video site 5min.
In September 2010, blufr was relaunched with new design, game modes, and social features. It is available on the web and as an iPhone/iPod Touch app in the iTunes app store.
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