October 26th, 2011 by Katie
The holiday season is upon us! Less than 30 days until Black Friday, the traditional start of the holiday shopping season. More than ever before, consumers are turning to the web for deal-hunting on their holiday purchases. So to help our users find the best bargains on the web, we are excited to announce the launch of Coupons by Answers.com!
What is Coupons by Answers.com? It’s an aggregation of the web’s hottest deals — coupons, free shipping offers, discounts, and much more — from popular online retailers such as Best Buy, Target, Macy’s, and Pottery Barn. But what makes this new site particularly special is that we’ll be combining all of this with the community-based Q and A for which Answers.com is known and trusted. With a slight twist: because of the short-lived nature of coupons as well as the opinion-based nature of deal-hunting, we have introduced the multiple answer format for our new Coupons site. Our consumer research has indicated this is the best way to help shoppers, and we’re excited about rolling out this new approach.
Why are we launching our Coupons site? We have found that consumers frequently have questions about the stores and products they want to buy, as well as about the coupons they find. Within our vast community, we know we have plenty of shopping experts who can answer a wide range of shopping-related questions, and we want to share their expertise with our broad audience to users to give them more confidence that they are getting the most for their money.
To celebrate the launch of Coupons, we’re giving away $100 gift cards every day for the next two weeks! Just answer the question posted on the Coupons homepage for a chance to win. And, double your chances to win by “Liking” us on Facebook! Check out all the best bargains at your favorite retailer, then let us know what you think in the comments. Happy Savings!
September 16th, 2011 by Katie
Answers.com will host the 2011 AnswerThon Xtreme for FOUR days starting next week! Don’t miss this Xtremely Xciting Event!
The goal is to answer as many questions as possible in three sentences or more. Participants with the best answers, both accurate and grammatically correct, will qualify to win one of the many prizes. In order for your answers to be counted and to be eligible for prizes, you must read the rules and sign up to participate at answerthon.com.
When: Friday, September 23, 2011 through Monday, September 26, 2011*
Where: Answers.com
Who: All registered Answers.com community members: supervisors and contributors. (A previous two-time consecutive AnswerThon or AnswerHours 1st place winner must sit out for the next two consecutive AnswerThon or AnswerHours contests, thus giving other contestants an opportunity to win the 1st place slot.)
Prizes:
- One FIRST PLACE winner: $500 Amazon.com gift card
- Two SECOND PLACE winners (one super / one contributor): $400 Amazon.com gift card
- Two THIRD PLACE winners (one super / one contributor): $250 Amazon.com gift card
- Four FOURTH PLACE winners (two supers / two contributors) : $50 Amazon.com gift card
- Twenty Runners Up: Answers.com souvenirs
For questions contact: answerthon@answers.com
*Event begins at 12:00 am ET on Sept 23th and ends at 12:00 pm ET on September 26th. The UK is typically 5 hours ahead of Eastern Time. If you are unsure about the start/end times you can convert Eastern Time to your time zone.
August 26th, 2011 by Katie
On July 27th Answers.com held its first mini AnswerThon. In just three short hours our awesome contributors posted 1,018 answers to people’s questions.
We are proud to announce the eight top contributors:
First Place:
Second Place:
Third Place:
Fourth Place:
Stay tuned for future events like this one!
How many questions do you think you can answer in three hours? That’s right, three short hours. Try your best and you could win a prize in our newest contest, AnswerHours, coming up this week!
You’ve probably heard of our popular AnswerThon, an annual event that pits our prolific community members against each other, all in the name of answering people’s questions. AnswerHours works the same way, just in a shorter time frame. Whoever posts the most answers in three hours will be crowned the winner. This AnswerHours event is open to all registered Answers.com Community members, both volunteer Supervisors and Non-Supervisors.
Be one of the top six contributors who answer the most questions and share in prizes valued at over $1,000. In order for your answers to be counted and to be eligible for prizes, you must read the rules and sign up for the contest.
When: Wednesday, July 27, 2011 from 8 to 11 p.m. ET (Note: The UK is typically 5 hours ahead of Eastern Time. If you are unsure you can convert Eastern Time to your time zone.)
Who: All registered Answers.com community members (both supervisors and non-supervisors)
What: Answer the most questions in a three-hour time frame and you could win one of the following prizes:
- Two FIRST PLACE winners (one volunteer supervisor and one non-supervisor contributor) will receive a $150 Amazon.com gift card
- Two SECOND PLACE winners (one volunteer supervisor and one non-supervisor contributor) will receive a $100 Amazon.com gift card
- Two THIRD PLACE (one volunteer supervisor and one non-supervisor contributor) will each receive a Radica 20 Questions Handheld Game ($25 value) and Answers.com merchandise
- Two FOURTH PLACE winners (one volunteer supervisor and one non-supervisor contributor) will each receive Answers.com merchandise
Please read the rules carefully before signing up and participating. We wish everyone the best of luck!
We recently added a Google +1 button on the Answers.com homepage and WikiAnswers homepage. Very similar to Facebook’s Like button, Google +1 acts as a user vote for the quality of the page you are on. 
Google will be using +1 as another signal for quality of their search results. It will also show your Google contacts that you’ve given Answers.com your personal stamp of approval.
If you are signed into to your Google/Gmail account, go ahead and click Google +1 to give us your vote of confidence. You can find the button on the left hand side of the homepage, under “Recommend us.”
We love social media here at Answers.com. And with 33,000+ fans on our Facebook page, we’re pretty sure you do too. But did you know we have Facebook pages set up for every language and community group on Answers.com? This week we added two new ones to the list: WikiAnswers Influential Teens (WIT) and Answers.com Tagalog.
You can find our main Answers.com Facebook page here and follow our Twitter feed of titillating trivia here. Here is a full list of our Facebook pages and a sample of what you will find there. Go ahead, tell us you like us!
Answers.com Facebook Pages
