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WikiAnswers reaches one million questions

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new media newsWikiAnswers, the user generated content (UGC) component of Answers.com, has passed the one million question milestone.

The millionth question, placed in the Science and Environment category, was “Are there readily available substitutes for gold in industrial applications?”, asked at 12:22 pm EST. To date, WikiAnswers currently contains over 2,100 categories of questions.

According to analysis using ComScore data, WikiAnswers is second-fastest growing domain of the top 1,500 Web domains. For the first nine months of this year, WikiAnswers unique monthly visitor count in the U.S. has grown 317%, to over four million.

“The site’s features continue to improve, based almost exclusively on the requests and suggestions of the community, led by our talented and dedicated volunteer Supervisors. It takes the guesswork out of our development plan, as they know exactly what changes will yield a better experience for our contributors,” Jay Bailey, Director of Marketing and Community Development.

Originally posted on November 1, 2007 @ 5:09 am

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