Wikipedia's first sentence called it “world wide web site which fuses content from multiple sources”. Today it says “internet-based knowledge exchange”.
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The opening as it read in 2015
The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet. The website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation (previously GuruNet), an Israel -based Internet reference and Q&A company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem , founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999. WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform, using wiki-based technologies. Many of the site's pages are surrounded with advertisements to the point where performance is heavily impacted making it look cluttered and unorganized.1
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The opening as it stood in 2005
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The opening as it stood in 2010 1 passage from the previous snapshot no longer appear
Launched in January 2005, the website is the primary product of the Answers Corporation ( Nasdaq : ANSW ), previously GuruNet), an Israel -based Internet reference company with offices in New York City and Jerusalem , founded by Bob Rosenschein in 1999.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 371096936.
The opening as it stood in 2020 3 passages from the previous snapshot no longer appear
The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet and then AFCV Holdings.The website is now the primary product of the Answers Corporation .It has tens of millions of user-generated questions and answers, and provides a website where registered users can interact with one another.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 962877631.
The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet and then AFCV Holdings. The website is now the primary product of the Answers Corporation . It has tens of millions of user-generated questions and answers, and provides a website where registered users can interact with one another.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1175229854.
The opening as it stood in 2025
The domain name was acquired by NetShepard and subsequently sold to GuruNet and then AFCV Holdings. The website is now the primary product of the Answers Corporation . It has tens of millions of user-generated questions and answers, and provides a website where registered users can interact with one another.
Red text was written in or rewritten since the previous snapshot. Their copy is revision 1291065469. This is our newest snapshot; the live article may have moved again since.
Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “world wide web site which fuses content from multiple sources”. Today it says “internet-based knowledge exchange”. Read the current article and compare.
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What Wikipedia says this is
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Then
world wide web site which fuses content from multiple sources
Now
internet-based knowledge exchange
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