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Answers.com is the place where reference information and Q&A content come together to deliver the best answers on the Internet.
It's built upon a combination of two answering styles:
ReferenceAnswers is a one-stop shop that aggregates dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases and more, offering millions of topics available for fast-fact lookup as well as deep research.
WikiAnswers is an advanced Q&A platform powered by the collaborative efforts of a global knowledge community... with a wiki-twist.
Here's a deeper look at how Answers.com works:
| ReferenceAnswers | WikiAnswers | |
| What is it? | The world's greatest answer engine. | Community-collaborated Q&A, the wiki way. |
| Why use it? | For a quick definition or fact check or for deeper research. Look up Michael Jackson and get a page of information from various leading reference resources. | Ask a question on any topic and get a cooperatively written, human-generated answer. Or answer other people's question! |
| How do you use it? |
Just enter a word, phrase or name. There are other ways to use it too, including:
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Ask a question in the search box. Browse the unanswered questions. Read and improve other people's answers. |
| Where do the answers come from? | ReferenceAnswers includes over 250 trusted titles from prestigious publishers — along with our patented database technology — to give you the most comprehensive page available on a subject. | WikiAnswers has over 5 million answers from our Q&A community. We're all knowledgeable about some topics and curious about others... The exchange of questions and answers happens here, where people contribute what they know and ask what they don't. |
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