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There’s a whole new way to get answers on Answers.com… Watch them!

TechCrunch reports:

Exclusive: Answers.com Gets 200,000 Video Answers From 5Min

Every big publisher on the Web wants to be able to serve up ad-friendly videos, but creating them can be a pain. But there are already plenty of high-quality videos out there in every subject imaginable. With that in mind, Answers.com has quietly launched Video Answers with about 200,000 videos from video distribution network 5min on everything from home repair and fashion tips to cars and travel.

Answers.com Videos consists of up to 200,000 videos in over 200 categories. The videos come to Answers.com from 5min Media, which has syndicated videos on the site for over a year – you’ve probably seen them in ReferenceAnswers topic pages, embedded between other content sources.

This new video library, directly accessible at http://video.answers.com, includes tips, how-to guides and visual demonstrations from experts across hundreds of fields. Categories include the likes of Product Reviews, Green Living, Travel Tips, and Diet & Nutrition.

We’re pretty sure Answers.com CEO Bob Rosenschein speaks on behalf of the entire content team when he says: “Our mission is to offer answers about anything, accessible on a range of platforms and formats. 5min Media provides us the opportunity to offer answers in video form in addition to our community-generated and reference content. Now Answers.com delivers the answers best displayed with instructional visuals – like how to create ringtones for your iPhone or how to make the perfect steak.”

Start watching!

Robin Wauters, a writer for TechCrunch, also known as a member of the Traveling Geeks, had this to say on his Twitter account at LeWeb:

Cool personal answers.com t-shirt #leweb http://post.ly/Eger

Couldn’t agree more.

Ready for a major announcement? Answers.com announced today a September comScore ranking of #13, up five positions from August. From today’s release:

…comScore data for September 2009. Answers.com’s combined U.S. unduplicated unique visitors reached 56.4 million in September, up 25% from 45.1 million in August. WikiAnswers had 46.3 million U.S. unique visitors and ReferenceAnswers had 21.4 million U.S. unique visitors in September.

According to comScore, Answers.com sites now have a higher audience than major brands such as CNN.com, craigslist and New York Times Digital.

In case you’d like a visual to take a mental picture:

Roi Carthy over at TechCrunch had this to say about the development:

What site has jumped five spots between August and September to become the 13th most visited site in the US, leapfrogging properties like New York Times and Viacom Digital?

Here are some hints: It’s listed on the NASDAQ. It was founded in Israel and its R&D center is located in Jerusalem. It has raised funding from high-profile angel investors Dr. Yossi Vardi and Ron Conway. Can you name the company?

The answer is— Answers.com.

Exemplifying that startups are long hauls, Answers.com, née GuruNet, has been plugging away since its founding in 1999. Ten years later, comScore’s September 2009 data places the reference and Q&A site as the 13th most popular site in the United States, pulling in 56.4M unique users. This is a whopping 25% increase on Answers.com’s August numbers.

Care for a fun fact? Based on unique visitors, WikiAnswers has crossed over and is the #1 community-driven Q&A site:

Congrats to the hard-working team behind Answers.com. Looking forward to more great news, products and site features!

We are pleased to report that Answers.com is a TechCrunch50 2009 sponsor. The conference is “a global competition conference for start-ups,” and Answers.com is proud to support the event.

If you happen to be at TC50, stop by and say hello!

Gil Reich, Answers.com’s VP of Product Management, at TechCrunch50.

Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch picked up on the 2008 Year in Review today and wrote it up here. In an online world where others – like Google and Yahoo – are focusing on the year’s searches, Answers.com and WikiAnswers chose to focus on the year’s questions.

And it’s nice to see he liked this year’s collage, too…