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If you’re going to be #2 - why not be #2 after… Facebook?

Answers.com’s WikiAnswers was rated the #2 fastest growing U.S. domain in 2009, right after Facebook. And, hey, that’s ok, since Answers.com recently implemented Facebook Connect as an option for signing in.

Here’s a little more from the official announcement:

“…according to comScore data… WikiAnswers’ unique monthly visitor count in the U.S. grew 74%^(*). This ranks WikiAnswers as the 2^nd fastest growing domain in 2009, second only to Facebook.com, of the top 50 U.S. domains in December 2008.”

Bob Rosenschein, Chairman and CEO of Answers.com, said this about the growth:

“The site’s unique self- reinforcing growth coupled with the efforts of the entire Answers.com team, have once again brought Answers.com to the culmination of a very successful year.”

So for the millions of Answers.com contributors out there - treat yourselves to some chocolate! Even the tiniest edits are building on the amazing, global, growing, collaborative Q&A project that is WikiAnswers.

Answers.com’s Bob Rosenschein is in Munich attending DLD this week, and there is nothing like a Digital, Life, Design conference to get us inspired.

A few such inspired moments were captured on digital film and are shared below.

First, ‘Disruptive,’ a panel with guests all involved in disruptive technologies that changed their respective industries.

This panel was moderated by Yossi Vardi, the father of Israeli high-tech and an angel investor inAnswers.com. The speakers included Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype, and Mitchell Baker, founder of Mozilla.

Another noteworthy moment was when Mitchell Baker received the Aenne Burda award for outstanding female entrepreneur from last year’s winner, Esther Dyson.

Bob sat with Sharona Justman, who runs the annual Israel Conference in Los Angeles.

A quick chat between sessions… Hey, Bob, are you using Mobile Answers?

Answers.com Founder and CEO Bob Rosenschein sat with a reporter at Intruders.tv at Le Web ‘09 in December and offered his thoughts on the site’s healthy growth, successful business model, fabulous community, and… questions.com?

Watch the video… and skip to minute 6:12 for the Answers.com secret sauce. Hint: it has to do with the passion of the most unbelievable community around!

Answers.com CEO Bob Rosenschein in Las Vegas last week showing off his answers at ShowStoppers and CES.

Happen to be at Web 2.0 Summit this week in San Francisco? Answers.com has been participating - be sure to catch CEO and Founder Bob Rosenschein and Product Manager Shaya Loney at the kiosk.

Today Answers Corp reported its Q2 financial results.

You can check out more of the Q2 report here and listen to the conference call here.

For now, I just want to re-quote Founder and CEO Bob Rosenschein here:

“Answers had another excellent quarter, hitting record revenues… These results highlight the strength of our business model and the continued growth of WikiAnswers. According to comScore, even in the summer month of June, our combined sites reached 26.2 million unique U.S. visitors, putting us at #31. We are looking forward to launching the international versions of WikiAnswers, and we remain very upbeat about the rest of 2009.“

Read that last line?

WikiAnswers is taking over the world! Mwahaha!

Peggy Anne Salz of MSearchGroove - a knowledge portal for mobile search, mobile advertising, social media and more - published her fabulous podcast interview with Bob Rosenschein, Founder and CEO of Answers Corporation, after hearing him speak at the ThinkMobile conference last week.

Bob spoke about the growing success of WikiAnswers.com, mobile search, mobile SEO and user experience among other topics.

Salz’s take:

In view of WikiAnswers.com’s increasing popularity, I decided to take a closer look at the company’s future roadmap. I caught up with Bob to get the inside track on his company’s mobile ambitions, discuss the key criteria for an optimal mobile search experience, and the role of mobile advertising in the scheme of things.

Listen to the podcast here:

Answers.com CEO Bob Rosenschein Warns Roadblocks To Mobile Advertising & Mobile Search; Mobile SEO Is Critical