Search engines give you links to sift through, one by one. But Answers.com provides quick, integrated reference answers instead of just search engine links. According to Forbes, it is the most useful, smartest, coolest, easiest-to-use Web innovation to come around in years.
Ever since the early search engines emerged in the mid-1990s, Web users have been trained to accept a single search paradigm. A query for a word or phrase returns a long list of links to other Web pages--drawn from the vast, unstructured Internet--that contain the search term. These results are often overwhelming or even inappropriate.
In contrast, Answers.com delivers snapshot, multi-faceted definitions and explanations from credible, attributable reference sources on over one million topics in its database.
PS: Recently google changed its default dictionary search from dictionary.com to answers.com. When you type in an english word in google, a definition link comes up in the right hand side of the page.
Ever since the early search engines emerged in the mid-1990s, Web users have been trained to accept a single search paradigm. A query for a word or phrase returns a long list of links to other Web pages--drawn from the vast, unstructured Internet--that contain the search term. These results are often overwhelming or even inappropriate.
In contrast, Answers.com delivers snapshot, multi-faceted definitions and explanations from credible, attributable reference sources on over one million topics in its database.
PS: Recently google changed its default dictionary search from dictionary.com to answers.com. When you type in an english word in google, a definition link comes up in the right hand side of the page.
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