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Answers.com partners with WordPress with new Plugin

Posted on October 14, 2007 • By Miriam Schwab
Category: Business View Comments

Answers.com, an Israeli company publicly traded on the NASDAQ, has partnered with the guys behind WordPress to integrate Answers.com’s service with WordPress blogs. The company has developed a plugin for users of the free, downloadable WordPress.org platform, and is providing an integrated service on WordPress.com blogs.

Answers is a free online service that provides definitions and encyclopedic-entries on millions of topics. Their new plugin will add a button to the toolbar that, when clicked, creates an automatic link from a word to its entry on Answers.com. Here’s the explanation from the press release:

To use the new feature, WordPress.com bloggers will press the AnswerLinks(TM) icon (http://www.answers.com/main/wordpress_howto.jsp) on the WordPress editing toolbar to trigger an application that will suggest terms for automatic linking. Typical suggestions will include names, technical terms or obscure language that may not be familiar to some readers. Only words confirmed by the author will be linked to definitions, assuring full editorial control.

I can see how this could be useful; often when I’m writing about topics that I know many people aren’t familiar with, I’ll link key words to their entry on Wikipedia (lulav and etrog anyone?). This may be a faster way to provide that type of helpful information to users.

What is WordPress? Well, WordPress is a flexible and user-friendly blogging and CMS system. Guess which site runs on WordPress?

(I’ll give you a minute.)

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