no.stupid.answers

Last week we mentioned here that the Answers.com community has grown to over 5 million members. The growth is encouraging, and not just to us no.stupid.answers bloggers. Answers.com’s Director of Community Development, Scott Moore, shared his thoughts in yesterday’s press release:

“Q&A sites have become a very popular means for getting answers to everyday questions, as well as sharing knowledge on topics close to people’s hearts, and Answers.com is at the forefront of this trend,” said Scott Moore, Director of Community Development.

“Whether it is the BP oil spill disaster, the latest on the iPhone 4 release, or excitement surrounding the FIFA World Cup games, our dedicated community is asking, answering and conversing across a vast collection of categories. Our community programs – Community Outreach, WikiReviewers, Mentoring and Vandal Patrol, to name a few, are delivering on the opportunity to expand our user-base, our data-base and our brand. As we fast approach 9 million answers in our community answer database, it’s clear that, without the wonderful, diverse and knowledgeable members of our community, we wouldn’t have one of the fastest-growing Q&A communities on the Web.”

Here are some other fun facts about Answers.com’s recent growth:

• Answers.com’s U.S. audience size in May 2010 was 45.4 million unique visitors…
• …this ranked the site #21 on the comScore charts.
• Globally, monthly unique visitors were 72 million…
• …which makes Answers.com the 37th highest ranked site worldwide.

The question-answering process is actually a cycle of growth: You ask a question, and get an answer, but that leaves you with so many new questions. Which grow into a new cycle. Of growth. And so on.

Like, for instance: Who is more powerful, ninjas or pirates?

Obviously the answer is ninjas, but why? Some say speed, others say the slick black outfits. But then why black? Why not green? And how speedy is speedy enough to defeat a pirate, what with his parrot and funky accent?

Photo credit and Foto Friday support from the spectacular SarahI.

Online Media Daily reports today in a news brief that WikiAnswers “had the biggest traffic gain in the last year among the Internet’s top 100 sites–growing 520% to 10.3 million monthly visitors, according to new research from media-buying agency ZenithOptimedia.”

520%!? I didn’t know percents went that high.

This report tells me a few things:

1. I need to review percentages. Is that sixth grade material or grad school?
2. WikiAnswers is growing so big so rapidly, soon it’s going to need new pants. How do these kids grow so fast?
3. It’s just getting more and more awesome to track WikiAnswers on a daily basis. We hope you’ll agree.