UNITED
STATES OF AMERICA




SECURITIES
AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION




WASHINGTON,
DC 20549




FORM
10-Q




(Mark
One)




x
            QUARTERLY
      REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES
      EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934




For
      the quarterly period ended March 31,
2010





            TRANSITION
      REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE SECURITIES
      EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


For
the transition period from ___ to ____




Commission
File Number: 001-32255




ANSWERS
CORPORATION




(Exact name of
Registrant as specified in its charter)




Delaware
            98-0202855(State or
      Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)
            (I.R.S.
      Employer Identification No.)237
      West 35th
      Street, Suite 1101, New York, New York
            10001(Address of
      principal executive offices)
            (Zip
      Code)(646)
      502-4777(Registrant’s
      telephone number)(Former Name,
      Former Address and Former Fiscal Year, if changed since last
      report)




Indicate by check
mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed
by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days.


Yes
    
x                      
No      




Indicate by check
mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its
corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted
and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months
(or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post
such files).  Yes  No  




Indicate by check
mark whether the Registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer,
a non-accelerated filer or a smaller reporting company. See the definitions of
“large accelerated filer", "accelerated filer” and “smaller reporting company”
in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act. (Check one):




Large
accelerated Filer   
         Accelerated
filer         
           Non-accelerated
filer           




Smaller reporting
company          
x




Indicate by check
mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of
the Exchange Act).




Yes
     
                     
No       x




The number of the
registrant’s shares of common stock outstanding was 7,958,928 as of May 3,
2010.







ANSWERS
CORPORATION




FORM
10-Q




CONTENTS


Table of Contents




PART I
      — FINANCIAL INFORMATIONItem 1.
            Consolidated Financial Statements
      (unaudited)Consolidated Balance Sheets as of March 31, 2010 and December
      31, 2009Consolidated Statements of Income for the three months ended
      March 31, 2010 and 2009Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months
      ended March 31, 2010 and 2009Notes to Consolidated Financial
    StatementsItem 2.
            Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
      and Results of OperationsItem 4.
            Controls and ProceduresPART II
      — OTHER INFORMATIONItem 1.
            Legal ProceedingsItem 2.
            Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of
      ProceedsItem 3.
            Defaults Upon Senior SecuritiesItem 4.
            (Removed and reserved)Item 5.
            Other InformationItem 6.
            ExhibitsSignatures






INTRODUCTORY
NOTE




This
Report on Form 10-Q for Answers Corporation (“Answers” or the “Company”)
may contain forward-looking statements. You can identify these statements
by forward-looking words such as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “intend,”
“anticipate,” believe,” “estimate” and “continue” or similar words.
Forward-looking statements include information concerning possible or assumed
future business success or financial results. You should read statements that
contain these words carefully because they discuss future expectations and
plans, which contain projections of future results of operations or financial
condition or state other forward-looking information.  We believe that it
is important to communicate future expectations to investors. The
forward-looking statements included herein are based on current expectations
that involve a number of risks and uncertainties, which are discussed in other
sections of this Form 10-Q and in our other filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.  These risks and uncertainties could cause actual
results or events to differ materially from the forward-looking statements that
we make.




Although,
there may be events in the future that we are not able to accurately
predict or control, we do not undertake any obligation to update any
forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes
available or other events occur in the future.  Accordingly,
to the extent that this Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements regarding
the financial condition, operating results, business prospects or any other
aspect of the Company, please be advised that Answers' actual financial
condition, operating results and business performance may differ materially
from that projected or estimated by the Company in forward-looking
statements.


Table of Contents




PART
I - FINANCIAL INFORMATION








ITEM 1. CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(UNAUDITED)




Answers Corporation
and Subsidiary




Consolidated Balance Sheets (unaudited, in thousands except share and
per share data)




December
      31
            
            March
      312009
            
            2010$
            
            $AssetsCurrent
      assets:Cash
      and cash equivalents
            22,234
            
            20,010Marketable
      securities
            795
            
            4,314Short-term
      deposits (restricted)
            -
            
            100Accounts
      receivable
            2,350
            
            2,502Prepaid
      expenses and other current assets
            907
            
            865Deferred
      tax asset
            34
            
            28Total
      current assets
            26,320
            
            27,819Long-term
      deposits (restricted)
            276
            
            270Deposits
      in respect of employee severance obligations
            1,756
            
            1,851Property
      and equipment at cost, net of $2,464 and $2,657 accumulated
      depreciationas
      of December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2010, respectively
            1,858
            
            1,982Other
      assets:Intangible
      assets, net of $657 and $688 accumulated amortization as of December 31,
      2009and
      March 31, 2010, respectively
            797
            
            766Goodwill
            437
            
            437Prepaid
      expenses, long-term, and other assets
            167
            
            79Deferred
      tax asset, long-term
            14
            
            28Total
      other assets
            1,415
            
            1,310Total
      assets
            31,625
            
            33,232Liabilities
      and stockholders' equityCurrent
      liabilities:Accounts
      payable
            403
            
            614Accrued
      expenses and other current liabilities
            774
            
            744Accrued
      compensation
            1,009
            
            982Capital
      lease obligation – current portion
            82
            
            83Total
      current liabilities
            2,268
            
            2,423Long-term
      liabilities:Liability
      in respect of employee severance obligations
            1,838
            
            2,005Capital
      lease obligation, net of current portion
            24
            
            2Deferred
      tax liability
            38
            
            36Series
      A and Series B Warrants
            8,008
            
            7,393Total
      long-term liabilities
            9,908
            
            9,436Commitments
      and contingenciesSeries
      A and Series B convertible preferred stock: $0.01 par value; stated
      value and liquidation  preference of $101.76 per share for the Series
      A and $100 per share for the Series B  Convertible Preferred Stock;
      6% cumulative annual dividend; 130,000shares
      authorized, issued and outstanding
            2,381
            
            2,967Stockholders'
      equity:Preferred
      stock: $0.01 par value; 870,000 shares authorized, none
    issued
            -
            
            -Common
      stock; $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 7,951,329 and
      7,958,928shares
      issued and outstanding as of December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2010,
      respectively
            8
            
            8Additional
      paid-in capital
            88,539
            
            88,118Accumulated
      other comprehensive income
            28
            
            33Accumulated
      deficit
            (71,507)
            
            (69,753)Total
      stockholders' equity
            17,068
            
            18,406Total
      liabilities and stockholders' equity
            31,625
            
            33,232


The accompanying
notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.


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Answers Corporation
and Subsidiary




Consolidated Statements of Income (unaudited, in thousands except share
and per share data)




Three
      months ended March 312009
            
            2010$
            
            $Revenues:Advertising
      revenue-WikiAnswers
            3,162
            
            4,489ReferenceAnswers
            1,567
            
            1,218Answers
      service licensing
            18
            
            194,747
            
            5,726Costs
      and expenses:Cost of
      revenue
            1,059
            
            1,437Research
      and development
            873
            
            1,061Community
      development and marketing
            499
            
            744General
      and administrative
            1,219
            
            1,257Total
      operating expenses
            3,650
            
            4,499Operating
      income
            1,097
            
            1,227Interest
      income (expense), net
            (87)
            
            11Other income
      (expense), net
            15
            
            (8)Gain
      resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants
            2,010
            
            615Income
      before income taxes
            3,035
            
            1,845Income tax
      benefit (expense), net
            6
            
            (91)Net
      income
            3,041
            
            1,754Net
      income attributable to common shares (basic)
            2,306
            
            732Net
      income attributable to common shares (diluted)
            601
            
            276Basic
      and diluted earnings per common shareBasic
            $0.29
            
            $0.09Diluted
            $0.07
            
            $0.03Number
      of shares used in computing net earnings per common shareBasic
            7,871,097
            
            7,954,346Diluted
            8,861,905
            
            8,711,887




The accompanying
notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.


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Answers Corporation
and Subsidiary




Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows (unaudited, in
thousands)


Three
      months ended March 312009
            
            2010$
            
            $Cash
      flows from operating activities:Net
      income
            3,041
            
            1,754Adjustments
      to reconcile net income to net cash flows from operating
      activities:Depreciation
      and amortization
            256
            
            300Decrease
      (increase) in deposits in respect of employee severance
      obligations
            34
            
            (124)Increase
      (decrease) in liability in respect of employee severance
      obligations
            (35)
            
            197Stock-based
      compensation to employees and directors
            386
            
            313Decrease
      (increase) in deferred tax asset
            3
            
            (8)Decrease
      in deferred tax liability
            -
            
            (1)Fair
      value adjustments of warrants
            (2,010)
            
            (615)Loss on
      disposal of property and equipment
            6
            
            2Increase
      in short-term deposits related to hedging activity
            -
            
            (100)Loss
      from exchange rate forward contracts, net
            11
            
            -Loss
      from exchange rate differences
            (15)
            
            (7)Changes
      in operating assets and liabilities:Increase
      in accounts receivable, and prepaid expenses and other current
      assets
            (182)
            
            (210)Decrease
      (increase) in prepaid expenses, long-term, and
      other  assets
            (79)
            
            188Decrease
      in accounts payable
            (260)
            
            (65)Increase
      (decrease) in accrued expenses, accrued compensation and other current
      liabilities
            85
            
            (55)Net
      cash provided by operating activities
            1,241
            
            1,569Cash
      flows from investing activities:Capital
      expenditures
            (212)
            
            (118)Decrease
      (increase) in long-term deposits
            (7)
            
            6Purchases
      of marketable securities
            -
            
            (3,516)Net
      cash used in investing activities
            (219)
            
            (3,628)Cash
      flows from financing activities:Repayment
      of capital lease obligation
            (19)
            
            (20)Dividends
      paid
            (91)
            
            (194)Exercise
      of common stock options
            8
            
            46Net
      cash used in financing activities
            (102)
            
            (168)Effect of
      exchange rate changes on cash and cash equivalents
            (15)
            
            3Net
      increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents
            905
            
            (2,224)Cash and cash
      equivalents at beginning of period
            11,739
            
            22,234Cash
      and cash equivalents at end of period
            12,644
            
            20,010Supplemental
      disclosures of cash flow information:Income
      taxes paid
            -
            
            38Interest
      paid on capital lease obligations
            2
            
            2Non-cash
      investing activities:Capital
      expenditures on account
            89
            
            277




The accompanying
notes are an integral part of these consolidated financial
statements.


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ANSWERS CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


(UNAUDITED)




Note
1 - Business




Answers Corporation
(“the Parent”), a Delaware corporation, and GuruNet Israel Ltd., its
wholly-owned Israeli subsidiary (“the Subsidiary”) that engages primarily in
providing research and development services to the Parent, are collectively
referred to as “the Company.” The Parent is a public company and trades on the
NASDAQ Capital Market under the symbol “ANSW”.




The Company
provides answer-based search services to users primarily through its website
Answers.com®,
which includes WikiAnswers® and
ReferenceAnswersTM. In
the Company’s reports prior to its quarterly report for the second quarter of
2009, it referred to ReferenceAnswers as Answers.com. Beginning with the
quarterly report for the second quarter of 2009 it refers to that property as
ReferenceAnswers or ReferenceAnswers.com. The Company earns practically all of
its revenue from advertising on its website.




On June 10, 2009
the Company raised $7 million, before related fees and costs, from the exercise
of a second tranche warrant of a private placement offering.




As of March 31,
2010, approximately $844 thousand of the Company’s net assets were located
outside of the United States.




Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies




Basis
of Presentation




The accompanying
consolidated financial statements include the accounts of Answers Corporation
and its Subsidiary and are presented in accordance with accounting principles
generally accepted in the United States of America (“U.S. GAAP”). All
significant intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in
consolidation.




The accompanying
unaudited consolidated financial statements were prepared in accordance with the
instructions for Form 10-Q and, therefore, do not include all disclosures
necessary for a complete presentation of financial condition, results of
operations, and cash flows in conformity with generally accepted accounting
principles. All adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, of a
normal recurring nature and are necessary for a fair presentation of the interim
financial statements, have been included. Nevertheless, these financial
statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial
statements and related notes included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form
10-K for the year ended December 31, 2009. The results of operations for the
three months ended March 31, 2010 are not necessarily indicative of the results
that may be expected for the entire fiscal year or any other interim
period.




Foreign
Currency Translation




The currency of the
primary economic environment in which the operations of the Company are
conducted is the U.S. dollar (“dollar”), therefore, the dollar has been
determined to be the Company’s functional currency. Transactions in foreign
currency (substantially all in New Israeli Shekels – “NIS”) are recorded at the
exchange rate as of the transaction date. Monetary assets and liabilities
denominated in foreign currency are translated on the basis of the
representative rate of exchange at the balance sheet date. Non-monetary assets
and liabilities denominated in foreign currency are stated at historical
exchange rates. All exchange gains and losses from remeasurement of monetary
balance sheet items denominated in non-dollar currencies are reflected in the
statement of income as they arise.




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CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont’d)




Use
of Estimates




The preparation of
consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires
management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported
amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and
liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements and the
reported results of operations during the reporting periods. The current
economic environment has increased the degree of uncertainty inherent in those
estimates and assumptions. Actual results could differ from those
estimates.




Cash
and Cash Equivalents, and Marketable Securities




All highly liquid
investments with stated maturities of three months or less from date of purchase
are classified as cash equivalents.




All highly liquid
investments with stated maturities of greater than three months are classified
as marketable securities. The Company determines the appropriate classification
of its investments in marketable securities at the time of purchase. The
Company’s marketable securities have been classified and accounted for as
available-for-sale. After consideration of its risk versus reward objectives, as
well as its liquidity requirements, the Company may sell these securities prior
to their stated maturities. As these securities are viewed by the Company as
available to support current operations, securities with maturities beyond 12
months are classified as current assets under the caption marketable securities
in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. These securities are carried at
fair value, with the unrealized gains and losses reported as a component of
stockholders’ equity, except for unrealized losses determined to be other than
temporary which are recorded as other income (expense), net. Any realized gains
or losses on the sale of marketable securities are determined on a specific
identification method, and such gains and losses are reflected as a component of
other income (expense), net.




The Company
considers all available information relevant to the collectibility of the
security, including past events, current conditions, and reasonable and
supportable forecasts when developing estimate of cash flows expected to be
collected. Evidence considered in this assessment includes the reasons for the
impairment, the severity and duration of the impairment and changes in value
subsequent to year-end.




Marketable
Securities




The Company’s
marketable securities are invested in debt instruments of the
U.S. government.




Gross unrealized
losses on marketable securities and the fair values of those securities, at
March 31, 2010, were as follows (in thousands):






Aggregate
      cost basis
            
            Other
      than temporary impairment
            
            Unrealized
      loss
            
            Fair
      value$
            
            $
            
            $
            
            $Available
      for saleU.S.
      government securities
            4,315
            
            -
            
            (1)
            
            4,314




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CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont’d)




Revenue
Recognition




The Company,
through its website Answers.com, generates revenues via advertising in the form
of pay-per-performance ads and paid-for-impression advertising. In the
pay-per-performance model, the Company earns revenue based on the number of
clicks associated with such ads. In the paid-for-impression model, the Company’s
revenue is derived from the display of ads.




Almost all of the
Company’s advertising revenue is currently obtained through the efforts of third
parties and is not the result of direct contracts with advertisers. The third
party is obligated to pay the Company a portion of the revenue it receives from
advertisers, as compensation for the Company’s sale of promotional space on its
Internet properties. Amounts received from such third parties are reflected as
revenue in the period in which such advertising services are
provided.




The Company also
earns a negligible immaterial amount of revenue from partners that pay the
Company for providing them with answer-based services that they then use in
their own products, via co-branded web pages.




Accounting
for Stock-Based Compensation




The fair value of
stock options granted to employees and directors, is estimated at the date of
grant using the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which takes into
consideration the share price at the date of grant, the exercise price of the
option, the expected life of the option, expected interest rates and the
expected volatility. The value of stock options, as noted, is recognized as
compensation expense on a straight-line basis, over the requisite service period
of the entire award, net of estimated forfeitures.


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CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont’d)




Net
Earnings per Common Share




The table below
presents the computation of basic and diluted net earnings per common
share:




Three
      months ended March 312009
            
            2010(in
      thousands, except share
              and
      per share data)Basic
      earnings per common share computationNumerator:Net
      income
            $3,041
            
            $1,754Series
      A  and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
      dividends
            (91)
            
            (194)Amortization
      of Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
    discounts
            (247)
            
            (586)Income
      attributable to Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred
      Stock
            (397)
            
            (242)Net
      income attributable to common shares (basic)
            $2,306
            
            $732Denominator:Weighted
      average number of common shares outstanding during the
    period
            7,871,097
            
            7,954,346Basic
      net earnings per common share
            $0.29
            
            $0.09Diluted
      earnings per common share computationNumerator:Net
      income
            $3,041
            
            $1,754Series
      A  and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
      dividends
            (91)
            
            (194)Amortization
      of Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
    discounts
            (247)
            
            (586)Income
      attributable to Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred
      Stock
            (92)
            
            (83)Gain
      resulting from fair value adjustment of Series A and Series B Warrants
      andwarrant
      to purchase units of Series B preferred stock and
      warrants
            (2,010)
            
            (615)Net
      income attributable to common shares (diluted)
            $601
            
            $276Denominator:Weighted
      average number of common shares outstanding during the
    period
            7,871,097
            
            7,954,346Dilutive
      shares related to Series B Unit Warrant
            462,514
            
            -Dilutive
      shares related to Series A and Series B Warrants
            226,744
            
            429,229Dilutive
      shares related to options and stock warrants
            301,550
            
            328,312Diluted
      common shares outstanding
            8,861,905
            
            8,711,887Diluted
      net earnings per common share
            $0.07
            
            $0.03






The basic and
diluted earnings per common share for the three months ended March 31, 2009, as
previously presented by the Company in financial statements and SEC filings,
have been adjusted to account for an immaterial error that resulted from the
inclusion of the portion of income attributable to the participating convertible
preferred stock, in those earnings.


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CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
2 - Summary of Significant Accounting Policies (cont’d)




Derivatives
and hedging




To mitigate the
potential impact of adverse fluctuations in cash flows resulting from future new
Israeli shekels (NIS) exchange rates, the Subsidiary hedges portions of its
forecasted expenses denominated in NIS with currency forwards and options. The
Subsidiary does not speculate in these hedging instruments in order to profit
from foreign currency exchanges, nor does it enter into trades for which there
are no underlying exposures.




The Company
recognizes all derivatives on the balance sheet at fair value. If the
derivatives meet the definition of a hedge and are so designated, depending on
the nature of the hedge, the effective portion of the gain or loss on the
derivative is reported as a component of other comprehensive income and
reclassified into earnings in the same period or periods during which the hedged
transaction affects earnings. The ineffective portion of a derivative’s change
in fair value, if any, is recognized in earnings. Gains (losses) from a
derivative’s change in fair value that are not designated as hedges are
recognized in earnings.


Through April 2009,
the Subsidiary’s currency forwards and options were not designated as hedging
instruments and, therefore, the net gains (losses) that resulted from such
derivatives were recognized in earnings as they occurred.


Starting May 2009,
the Subsidiary designated all of its currency hedging activity, which currently
consists only of forward contracts, as cash flow hedges, as they were all
eligible. The Company documents all relationships between the hedging
instruments and hedged items, as well as its risk management objective for
undertaking these hedging transactions. The Company also formally assesses, both
at the inception of the hedge and on an ongoing basis, whether or not each
derivative is highly effective in offsetting changes in fair value of the hedged
items.




Gains (losses) from
forward and option contracts are included in operating expenses, as
follows:


Three
      monthsended
      March 312009
            
            2010$
      (in thousands)Cost of
      revenue
            (15)
            
            5Research and
      development
            (61)
            
            21Community
      development and marketing
            (15)
            
            4General and
      administrative
            (36)
            
            10(127)
            
            40




As of March 31,
2010, the notional amount of the Subsidiary’s outstanding forward contracts was
approximately $1.93million,
constituting assets with a fair value of $62 thousand. Such assets are included
in prepaid expenses and other current assets as the foreign exchange forward
contracts mature through October 29, 2010, and the change in fair value has been
recorded as other comprehensive income (loss). The amounts recorded as other
comprehensive income (loss) will be reclassified to earnings as the forward
contracts mature or if, and to the extent that the hedging relationship is
deemed ineffective.






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CORPORATION


NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
3 – Comprehensive Income




Comprehensive
income represents net income plus any revenue, expenses, gains and losses that
are specifically excluded from net income and recognized directly as a component
of shareholders’ equity.




The reconciliation
from net income to comprehensive income is as follows:




Three
      months ended March 312009
            
            2010$
      (in thousands)Net
      Income
            3,041
            
            1,754Unrealized
      gain on derivative and hedging activity, net
            -
            
            2Unrealized
      gain on marketable security
            -
            
            3Total other
      comprehensive income
            3,041
            
            1,759







Note
4 – Redpoint Financing




On June 16,
2008, pursuant to a private placement of the Company’s securities, Redpoint
Omega, L.P. and Redpoint Omega Associates, LLC (collectively “Redpoint”)
purchased $6 million of the Company’s Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
(the “Series A Financing”), initially convertible into 1,333,333 shares of
common stock at a conversion price of $4.50 per share (the
“Series A Convertible Preferred Stock”), and common stock
purchase warrants exercisable for 666,667 shares of common stock at an exercise
price of $4.95 per share (the “Series A Warrants”). Redpoint also received a
warrant (the “Series B Unit Warrant”), exercisable until June 16, 2009, to
purchase units of up to $7 million of Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
and common stock purchase warrants. After deducting placement agent fees and
legal expenses, the Company’s net proceeds from the Series A Financing on June
16, 2008, were approximately $5.38 million.




On June 10, 2009,
Redpoint exercised its Series B Unit Warrant and purchased $7 million of the
Company’s Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series B
Financing”), initially convertible into 1,272,727 shares of common stock at a
conversion price of $5.50 per share (the
“Series B Convertible Preferred Stock”), and common stock
purchase warrants exercisable for 636,364 shares of common stock at an exercise
price of $6.05 per share (the “Series B Warrants”). After deducting placement
agent fees and legal expenses, the Company’s net proceeds from the Series B
Financing were approximately $6.48 million.




The Series A and
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock are classified as temporary equity and
the Series A and Series B Warrants are classified as a long-term liability on
the accompanying balance sheets.




On March 31, 2010,
the Company assessed the fair value of the Series A and Series B Warrants as
compared to their value as of December 31, 2009. The change in fair value has
been included in the statement of income as gain resulting from fair value
adjustment of warrants, and amounted to $615 thousand for the three months ended
March 31, 2010.




On March 31, 2009,
the Company assessed the fair value of the Series B Unit Warrant and the Series
A Warrants as compared to their value as of December 31, 2008. The change in
fair value has been included in the statement of income as gain resulting from
fair value adjustment of warrants, and amounted to $2,010 thousand for the three
months ended March 31, 2009


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(UNAUDITED)




Note
5 - Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock (Redeemable)




The following table
summarizes the changes in Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock
during the three months ended March 31, 2010:






Series
      A Convertible Preferred Stock
            
            Series
      B Convertible Preferred Stock
            
            Total$
      (in thousands)December
      31, 2009
            1,630
            
            751
            
            2,381Amortizations
      of discounts during the period
            247
            
            339
            
            586March
      31, 2010
            1,877
            
            1,090
            
            2,967






The Series A
and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock accrue cumulative dividends at a rate
of 6% per annum whether or not dividends have been declared by the Company’s
Board of Directors and whether or not there are profits, surplus or other funds
available for the payment of such dividends. Due to the Company’s decision to
pay Series A Convertible Preferred Stock dividends accrued through September 30,
2008, in the form of additional shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock,
the dividend accrual through such date is reflected as an increase in the stated
value of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock from $100 per share to $101.76
per share, with a corresponding decrease in the additional paid-in capital. All
dividends on Series A and Series B Convertible Preferred Stock subsequent to
September 30, 2008, were paid in cash.




As a result of the
Redpoint Financings (see Note 4), the Company’s Amended and Restated Certificate
of Incorporation has been amended to provide for the issuance of up to 60,000
shares of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and 70,000 shares of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, with a stated value of $100 per share
(the “Stated Value”) pursuant to the Certificate of Designations, Number, Voting
Powers, Preferences and Rights of Series A Convertible Preferred Stock
filed with the State of Delaware on June 16, 2008 and the Certificate of
Designations, Number, Voting Powers, Preferences and Rights of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock filed with the State of Delaware on July 28, 2009
(the “Certificate of Designations”).


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TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
6 – Fair Value Measurements








The Company
measures fair value in accordance with ASC 820-10, “Fair
Value Measurements and Disclosures” (formerly SFAS  157, “Fair
Value Measurements”). ASC  820-10 clarifies that fair value is an
exit price, representing the amount that would be received to sell an asset or
paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market
participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that should be
determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an
asset or a liability. As a basis for considering such assumptions,
ASC 820-10 establishes a three-tier value hierarchy, which prioritizes the
inputs used in the valuation methodologies in measuring fair value:




Level 1
- Observable inputs that reflect quoted prices (unadjusted) for identical assets
or liabilities in active markets.


Level 2
- Include other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the
marketplace.


Level 3
- Unobservable inputs which are supported by little or no market
activity.




The fair value
hierarchy also requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and
minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value.




The Company
measures its cash equivalents, marketable securities, foreign currency
derivative contracts and Series A and Series B Warrants at fair value. In
accordance with ASC 820-10, the Company’s cash equivalents and marketable
securities are classified within Level 1. This is because the cash equivalents
and the marketable securities are valued using quoted active market prices. The
Company’s foreign currency derivative contracts are classified within Level 2,
because they are valued utilizing market observable inputs. The Series A and
Series B Warrants are classified within Level 3 because they are valued using
the Black-Scholes model which utilizes significant inputs that are unobservable
in the market such as expected stock price volatility, risk-free interest rate
and the dividend yield, and remaining period of time the warrants will be
outstanding before they expire.


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(UNAUDITED)




Note
6 – Fair Value Measurements (cont’d)




The following table
presents the Company’s assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a
recurring basis as of December 31, 2009 and March 31, 2010, aggregated by the
level in the fair-value hierarchy within which those measurements
fall:





Description
              
              December 31,
                2009
              
              Quoted Prices in
                Active Markets for
                Identical Assets
                (Level
      1)
              
              Significant Other
                Observable Inputs
                (Level
      2)
              
              Significant
                Unobservable
                Inputs
                (Level
      3)$
      (in thousands)AssetsCash
      Equivalents
              
              21,287
              
              21,287
              
              -
              
              -Marketable
      Securities
              
              795
              
              795
              
              -
              
              -Foreign
      currency derivative contracts
              
              60
              
              -
              
              60
              
              -Total
      Assets
              
              22,142
              
              22,082
              
              60
              
              -LiabilitiesSeries
      A Warrants
              
              4,000
              
              -
              
              -
              
              4,000Series
      B Warrants
              
              4,008
              
              -
              
              -
              
              4,008Total
      Liabilities
              
              8,008
              
              -
              
              -
              
              8,008
 
 Description
              
              December 31,
                2010
              
              Quoted Prices in
                Active Markets for
                Identical Assets
                (Level
      1)
              
              Significant Other
                Observable Inputs
                (Level
      2)
              
              Significant
                Unobservable
                Inputs
                (Level
      3)$
      (in thousands)AssetsCash
      Equivalents
              
              17,756
              
              17,756
              
              -
              
              -Marketable
      Securities
              
              4,314
              
              4,314
              
              -
              
              -Foreign
      currency derivative contracts
              
              62
              
              -
              
              62
              
              -Total
      Assets
              
              22,132
              
              22,070
              
              62
              
              -LiabilitiesSeries
      A Warrants
              
              3,723
              
              -
              
              -
              
              3,723Series
      B Warrants
              
              3,670
              
              -
              
              -
              
              3,670Total
      Liabilities
              
              7,393
              
              -
              
              -
              
              7,393





In addition to the
above, the Company's financial instruments at December 31, 2009 and March 31,
2010, consisted of cash, accounts receivable, long term deposits, accrued
expenses, accrued compensation and related liabilities. The carrying amounts of
all the aforementioned financial instruments, approximate fair
value.


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NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
6 – Fair Value Measurements (cont’d)




The following table
summarizes the changes in the Company’s liabilities measured at fair value using
significant unobservable inputs (Level 3), during the three months ended March
31, 2010:




Level
      3Series
      A and Series B Warrants$
      (in thousands)December
      31, 2009
            8,008Fair value
      adjustments included in Statement of Income
            (615)March
      31, 2010
            7,393






Note
7 – Stockholders’ Equity




General




The following table
summarizes the changes in the Company’s stockholders’ equity during the
three-month period ending March31,
2010:




$
      (in thousands)December
      31, 2009
            17,068Stock-based
      compensation
            313Amortizations
      of discounts for the three months ended March 31, 2010
            (586)Dividends
            (194)Exercise of
      stock options
            46Change in
      other comprehensive income
            5Net income
      for the period
            1,754March
      31, 2010
            18,406




Common
Stock




During the three
months ended March 31, 2010, the Company issued a total of 7,599 shares of
common stock due to the exercise of 7,599 outstanding stock options, for total
consideration of approximately $46 thousand.




Stock
Warrants




As of March 31,
2010, there were 126,103 outstanding stock warrants with an exercise price of
$7.20. These warrants are exercisable immediately and will expire on January 30,
2011, if not exercised by then.




In February 2010,
1,029,488 warrants with an exercise price of $17.27 per warrant
expired.




No warrants were
exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2010.


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(UNAUDITED)




Note
7 – Stockholders’ Equity (cont’d)




Redpoint
Warrants




In connection with
the Redpoint Financings (see Note 4), the Company issued to Redpoint Series A
Warrants, exercisable for 666,667 shares of common stock at an exercise price of
$4.95 per share, and Series B Warrants, exercisable for 636,364 shares of common
stock at an exercise price of $6.05 per share. The Series A and the Series B
Warrants are exercisable immediately and, if not exercised, they will expire on
June 16, 2014 and June 10, 2015, respectively.




Stock
Options




During the three
months ended March 31, 2010, the Company granted a total of 28,500 stock options
to its employees at an exercise price of $8.52 per option. Additionally, during
the same period, 7,599 and 3,058 stock options were exercised and forfeited,
respectively.




The total fair
value of stock options vested during the three months ended March 31, 2010,
amounted to $313 thousand and was recorded as stock-based compensation
expense.




As of March 31,
2010, 353,813 options were available for grant under the 2005 and 2004 Plan. All
Prior Option Plans are closed for future grants.






Note
8 – Income Taxes




At March 31, 2010,
the Company’s deferred tax assets were almost entirely offset by a valuation
allowance. While the Company had taxable income in 2009 and the first quarter of
2010, it has experienced cumulative loss in recent years and its revenue model
continues to be subject to fluctuations and volatility that impact its ability
to accurately forecast its future expected profitability. The Company continues
to view these factors as significant pieces of negative evidence that make it
difficult to support a conclusion that expected taxable income from future
operations justifies recognition of deferred tax assets. Notwithstanding, the
Company will continue to monitor its profitability as well as the extent of
fluctuations and volatility and their impact on its revenue model. As more
information accumulates and to the extent that the Company continues to
experience sustained profitability in future periods, it will consider if and
when a reversal will be appropriate.




The Company files
federal income tax returns in the U.S., as well as various state & local and
foreign jurisdictions tax returns. The Parent is no longer subject to U.S.
federal income tax examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2006. The
Subsidiary is no longer subject to foreign income tax examinations by tax
authorities for years prior to 2007 but is currently undergoing an audit by the
Israeli tax authorities for the tax years 2007 and 2008.




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(UNAUDITED)




Note
9 - Commitments and Contingencies







(a)        The
Parent rents its offices under an operating lease agreement originally scheduled
to expire in June 2010. The Subsidiary rents its offices under an operating
lease agreement with an initial term expiring in July 2010, which was further
extended through October 2010, and an option to extend the term for
an additional 5 years. As of March 31, 2010, the remaining minimum lease
payments under the aforesaid non-cancelable operating leases for office space
through the end of their respective terms in 2010 were $188
thousand.




On April 30, 2010,
the Parent extended its current lease through June 30, 2012. In addition, the
Parent leased additional office space in an adjacent office for the period
commencing May 1, 2010 through June 30, 2012. The minimum lease payments under
such non-cancelable operating leases were as follows (in
thousands):




Year
      ending December 31
            
            $2010 (nine
      months ending December 2010)
            
            792011
            
            1632012
            
            83325




Rent expenses for
the office space operating leases for the three months years ended March 31,
2009, and 2010 were approximately $97 thousand, and $105 thousand,
respectively.




(b)
            The
      Subsidiary leases motor vehicles for certain employees under cancelable
      operating lease agreements. The minimum payment under these operating
      leases, upon cancellation of these lease agreements amounted to $24
      thousand as of March 31, 2010.




Future minimum
lease payments under non-cancelable operating leases for motor vehicles, as of
March 31, 2010, are as follows (in thousands):




Year
      ending December 31
            
            $2010 (nine
      months ending December 2010)
            
            1302011
            
            1012012
            
            37268




Lease expenses for
the motor vehicles operating leases for the three months ended March 31, 2009,
and 2010 were approximately $42 thousand, and $49 thousand,
respectively.


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NOTES
TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)


(UNAUDITED)




Note
9 - Commitments and Contingencies (cont’d)




(c)
            Future
      minimum lease payments under non-cancelable capital leases for computer
      equipment, as of March 31, 2010, are as
follows:




Principal
            
            InterestYear
      ending December 31
            
            $
      (in thousands)2010 (nine
      months ending December 2010)
            
            83
            
            22011
            
            2
            
            185
            
            3




(d)
            A bank
      guarantee given to the Subsidiary’s landlord, is secured by a lien on some
      of the Subsidiary’s bank deposits. As of March 31, 2010, such deposits
      amounted to $942 thousand, including a restricted long-term deposit of
      $140 thousand.




(e)
            The
      Subsidiary’s hedging activity is secured by a lien on one of its bank
      deposits in an amount of up to $150 thousand. As of March 31, 2010,
      $100 thousand of such amount has been restricted and was included in short
      term deposits (restricted).




(f)
              In connection
      with the Redpoint Financings the Company entered into registration rights
      agreements with Redpoint, pursuant to which the Company agreed to register
      with the SEC for resale the common stock underlying the Redpoint
      Securities. In connection with the registration rights agreements, the
      Company agreed to pay a penalty of 1.0% per month, on a daily pro rata
      basis, up to a maximum of 8.0%, of the aggregate purchase price, as
      partial liquidated damages, for certain default events and subject to
      certain circumstances. The partial liquidated damages may trigger if the
      registration statements, which the Company filed on July 30, 2008 and June
      15, 2009, and which were declared effective by the SEC on September 16,
      2008 and July 28, 2009, respectively, cease to remain continuously
      effective.
  (g)
              In the
      ordinary course of business, the Company enters into various arrangements
      with vendors and other business partners, principally for content,
      web-hosting, marketing and various consulting arrangements. As of March
      31, 2010, the total future commitments under these arrangements amounted
      to approximately
$890 thousand.
  (h)
                In the
      ordinary course of business, the Company may provide indemnifications of
      varying scope and terms to customers, vendors, lessors, business partners,
      and other parties with respect to certain matters, including, but not
      limited to, losses arising out of its breach of agreements, services to be
      provided by it, or from intellectual property infringement claims made by
      third parties. Additionally, the Company has indemnified its board
      members, officers, employees, and agents serving at the request of the
      Company to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. It is not
      possible to determine the maximum potential amount of liability under
      these indemnification agreements due to the limited history of prior
      indemnification claims and the unique facts and circumstances involved in
      each particular agreement. Such indemnification agreements may not be
      subject to maximum loss clauses. To date, the Company has not incurred
      costs as a result of obligations under these agreements and has not
      accrued any liabilities related to such indemnification obligations in its
      accompanying financial
statements.
  (i)
              From time to
      time, the Company receives various legal claims incidental to its normal
      business activities, such as intellectual property infringement claims and
      claims of defamation and invasion of privacy. Although the results of
      claims cannot be predicted with certainty, the Company believes the final
      outcome of such matters will not have a material adverse effect on its
      financial position, results of operations, or cash
  flows.




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(UNAUDITED)




Note
10 – Risks and Uncertainties




(a)
                Most of the
      Company's revenue was generated through the efforts of third party
      suppliers (the “Monetization Partners”). In the three months ended March
      31, 2009 and 2010, the Company earned 91% and 88% of its revenue,
      respectively, through one of its Monetization Partners, Google Inc.
      (“Google”). Hence, the Company’s business is dependent on the Google
      Services Agreement, the agreement with Google pursuant to which the
      Company obtains most of the advertisements displayed on Answers.com and
      earns most of its ad revenues (“GSA”). The GSA was renewed in the fourth
      quarter of 2009 for a two-year period ending January 31, 2012. 
      A termination by Google of the GSA, for whatever reason, would result in
      the need to replace this relationship and obtain listings and
      advertisements from alternative providers, and the Company may not succeed
      in receiving equally favorable terms as those provided under the GSA. A
      termination of the GSA and a failure to replace it on equally favorable
      terms could result in a material reduction in the Company’s ad revenues
      and could adversely affect the Company’s business and financial
      results.
  (b)
                Search
      engines serve as origination Web properties for users in search of
      information, and the Company’s Websites’ topic pages often appear as one
      of the top links on the pages returned by search engines in response to
      users’ search queries. Thus, in addition to the ads the Company receives
      through Google, its traffic is mostly driven by search engine traffic,
      mostly from the Google search engine. In the three months ended March 31,
      2009 and 2010, according to the Company’s internal estimates, search
      engine traffic represented 81% and 91% of traffic, respectively. Search
      engines, at any time and for any reason, could change their algorithms
      that direct queries to the Company’s Web properties. On occasion the
      Company’s Web properties have experienced decreases in traffic, and
      consequently in revenue, due to search engine actions. The Company cannot
      guarantee that it will successfully react to these actions in the future
      and recover lost traffic. Accordingly, a change in algorithms that search
      engines use to identify Web pages towards which traffic will ultimately be
      directed, could cause a significant decrease in traffic and
      revenues.
 
 (c)
                Close to half
      of the Company’s operating expenses, excluding non-cash items such as
      stock-based compensation, are denominated in New Israel Shekels (NIS). The
      Company expects the amount of such NIS expenses to grow in the foreseeable
      future. In recent years, the U.S. dollar-NIS exchange rate has been
      volatile. If the value of the U.S. dollar weakens against the value of
      NIS, there will be a negative impact on the Company’s operating costs. In
      addition, to the extent the Company holds monetary assets and liabilities
      that are denominated in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the Company
      will be subject to the risk of exchange rate fluctuations. The Company
      uses various hedging tools, including forward contracts, to lessen the
      effect of currency fluctuations on its results of
    operations.
  (d)
                The Series A
      Warrants and Series B Warrants are revalued each reporting date, and any
      change in their fair value is recorded in the Statement of Income. The
      Company uses the Black-Scholes valuation model to determine the values of
      the warrants. Inputs used in this model include our stock price and
      risk-free interest rate. The primary reason for the change in value of the
      aforesaid warrants has been the change in the market value of our common
      stock on the measurement dates. To the extent that the market value of our
      common stock rises or declines in future periods, the Company may continue
      to experience significant gains or losses resulting from the fair value
      adjustments of Series A Warrants and Series B
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ITEM
      2. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION
      AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS




The
following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with, and is
qualified in its entirety by, our financial statements (and notes related
thereto) and other more detailed financial information appearing elsewhere in
this quarterly report. In addition to historical information, this quarterly
report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of
Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the
Exchange Act. These statements include, among other things, statements
concerning:




·
            Our
      expectations relating to the growth of our business and
      revenue;




·
            Our
      expectations concerning future traffic
trends;




·
            Our
      expectations concerning future revenue per 1,000 page views (“RPM”)
      trends;




·
            Our
      plans to continue investing resources in our core platform in areas such
      as content quality, maintaining and improving search engine optimization,
      performance, scalability, and usability, as well as creating an
      Application Programming Interface for
  Answers.com;




·
            Our
      plans to continue our investment in the French, Italian, German and
      Spanish, or “FIGS”, language  versions of WikiAnswers and our
      belief that this area will be critical to our growth in future
      years;




·
            Our
      plans surrounding mobile Answers.com
access;




·
            Our
      plans to further address the social answers space by more tightly
      integrating the question-answering process with popular social
      networks;




·
            Our
      intention to expand the amount of video content we display on
      Answers.com;




·
            Our
      expectation that FIGS will contribute materially to 2011
      revenue;




·
            Our
      expectations concerning seasonality and traffic patterns in the
      future;




·
            Our
      expectation that pay-per-performance, also known as cost-per-click (“CPC”)
      ads will continue to generate the overwhelming majority of our
      revenue;




·
            Our
      expectation to grow our research and development team in
    2010;




·
            Our
      expectations regarding future cash flows from operations;
    and




·
            Our
      belief that we have sufficient cash and cash equivalents to meet our
      working capital and operating requirements for at least the next twelve
      months;




as
well as other statements concerning our future operations, financial condition
and prospects and business strategies. These forward-looking statements are
subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause our actual results
to differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements.
Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not
limited to, those discussed in this quarterly report, and those discussed in
other documents we file with the SEC. We undertake no obligation to revise or
publicly release the results of any revision to these forward-looking
statements. Given the risks and uncertainties, readers are cautioned not to
place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements.




Introduction




This Management
discussion
and analysis, orMD&A, is divided into sections entitled “General,”
“Results of Operations,” “Liquidity and Capital Resources,” “Off Balance Sheet
Arrangements,” “Critical Accounting Estimates” and “Quarterly Results”. The
“General” section contains information regarding our business and recent events
as well as background and commentary regarding the revenue and expense captions
that comprise our Statement of Operations. The “Results of Operations” section
is our commentary on this quarter’s results of operations compared to the same
period in the preceding year. All of the sections herein should help provide a
better understanding of how our performance during the first quarter of 2010
compares to the same period in 2009.


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GENERAL




We own and operate
Answers.com, a leading Q&A site, dedicated to providing useful answers to
questions about anything. Answers.com includes WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers.
WikiAnswers is a community-generated social knowledge Q&A platform,
leveraging wiki-based technologies. Through the contributions of the community,
our questions and answers are continuously growing, improving and being updated.
ReferenceAnswers provides trusted editorial content on millions of topics
licensed from what we believe to be the world’s top reference publishers.
ReferenceAnswers provides the best results for simple questions of the who-is,
what-is variety. More complex questions are better handled by
WikiAnswers. Our goal is to become the dominant and recognized market leader for
answers on the Internet.




According to our
internal estimates, Answers.com generated 11.7 million average daily page views
in the first quarter of 2010 compared to 8.3 million average daily page views in
the same period in 2009. According to comScore, under its new hybrid audience
measurement methodology, Answers.com had 51.2 million unique visitors in the
U.S. in March 2010, ranking the site number 18 among the top U.S. Web
properties for that month. Also according to comScore, Answers.com had
approximately 76 million unique visitors worldwide in March 2010, ranking us
number 33 worldwide.




References
to Web Property Usage Measurements




We gauge the
effectiveness of our monetization efforts and trends by measuring our revenue
per thousand page views, or RPM. Throughout this Quarterly Report, we refer to
estimates of traffic, or page views, whose source is HBX Analytics, a tag-based
Web analytics system offered by Omniture, Inc., (“Omniture”). Traffic
measurements from this system are generated by our placement of tags on our Web
pages. The Omniture system then independently generates traffic
metrics.




We also use Google,
Inc.’s Google Analytics measurement services and Google AdSense data to estimate
the breakdown of our traffic sources.  Google Analytics measurements
are generated by our placement of tags on our Web properties’ pages, which
Google Analytics uses to count and report audience metrics
independently.




In this Quarterly
Report, statistics gathered from Omniture and Google Analytics are also referred
to as “internal estimates”.




We also follow and
report certain measurements performed by comScore, Inc., a global leader in
measuring the digital world and one of the preferred sources of digital
marketing intelligence. comScore’s “unique visitors” data to which we subscribe
is based on a new solution introduced by comScore in mid-2009, Media Metrix 360,
a ‘panel-centric hybrid’ solution to digital audience measurement. The new
approach combines person-level measurement from comScore’s proprietary 2 million
person global panel with Web site server metrics. Our focus on comScore’s unique
visitors metric – in the U.S. and worldwide – helps us understand and analyze
our progress vis-à-vis other Web properties in general and in the context of the
competitive Q&A space, in particular.




Certain comScore
clients have moved to a full-hybrid measurement methodology, while others have
moved to partial hybrid status, or have yet to implement hybrid measurement.
Direct comparison of a ranking post-hybrid implementation vs. pre-hybrid
implementation may not reflect the actual change in the site's ranking or
audience size over time. The comScore data presented in this report for
Answers.com is based on full hybrid measurement.




Third party
services measuring traffic audiences may provide different estimates than the
estimates reported by other similar services and our internal estimates. These
discrepancies may result from differences in methodologies applied or the
sampling approaches used by each measuring service.




We also generate
community-related statistics, including total number of answers and new
registered users, from our own systems contained in the WikiAnswers
property.


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New
Answers.com: Integration of WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers




In September 2009
we announced the launch of the new Answers.com, in recognition of the
integration of our two Web properties, culminating a process that began several
quarters earlier. Answers.com is the name we now use for our combined site, as
well as our umbrella brand, and is comprised of two properties or sub-brands,
WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers. The product strategy guiding the integration
was our desire to give users one address for the best answers to all types of
questions – be they community-generated from WikiAnswers, or editorially
licensed from ReferenceAnswers.




FIGS
Language Versions of WikiAnswers




In the third
quarter of 2009 we launched FIGS language versions of WikiAnswers. In 2010 we
plan to continue our investment in the FIGS versions of WikiAnswers. Our
strategy will capitalize on the needs of users around the globe who are
searching for answers online and will leverage our core strengths: community
building and Q&A space. We plan on leveraging our large and dynamic English
language database to grow our foreign language versions, by selectively
translating some of the over 8 million answered questions we have in our
WikiAnswers English language database. Our largest competitor already has
successful international sites and receives much of its traffic from those
sites, thus we view this area as critical to our future growth, internationally.
FIGS is still in its infancy and thus accounted for only $7 thousand of our
WikiAnswers revenue during the first quarter of 2010.




How
we Generate Revenue




Traffic





Our revenue is
driven by the traffic generated by Answers.com and our ability to effectively
monetize that traffic. Search engines, primarily Google, are responsible for
most of the traffic to Answers.com. Users submit queries and search engines
respond by generating a list of Web pages that they deem likely to offer the
most relevant content. When an Answers.com page ranks high in the algorithmic
systems of search engines, our results are more likely to be accessed by users.
For the three months ended March 31, 2009 and 2010, according to our internal
estimates, this source of traffic represented approximately 81% and 91%,
respectively, of Answers.com’s traffic.





The balance of the
traffic arriving at Answers.com in those periods originated from direct usage,
i.e., users visiting our home page and/or navigating within Answers.com, and, in
2009, from users who clicked on Google’s Definition Link feature, which has
since been discontinued.





Search engines
could change their algorithms that direct search queries to Answers.com or other
web properties. We have previously experienced decreases in traffic, and
consequently in revenue, in response to such search engine action. Our efforts
to maintain and increase the volume of this traffic are commonly referred to by
the industry as search engine optimization, or SEO. We often refer to traffic
from search engines as “SEO traffic”.




Search algorithms
used by search engines are designed to offer users the best results to the
queries searched. For this reason, the level of quality of content offered by
Websites plays an important role in determining whether a search engine will
include links to any given Website on its result page. Particularly in light of
the enormous amount of user-generated content offered on Answers.com via the
WikiAnswers component, in the event the quality of content on Answers.com pages
does not improve and/or if it deteriorates, our pages may rank lower in the
algorithmic systems of search engines. Lower ranking content could cause
Answers.com’s results to be less likely to be accessed by users, resulting in
traffic declines.


Seasonality




Our results of
operations have historically been affected by seasonal traffic patterns and
advertising demand. Many of our users are students who utilize Answers.com as
reference sources. Our traffic fluctuates with the academic school year, rising
from January through May, falling to lower levels during the summer months,
rising again in September through November, and falling again in December,
coinciding with school breaks and the holiday season. We expect traffic to
Answers.com to continue to fluctuate seasonally in the future. This seasonal
fluctuation in traffic results in a fluctuation in our quarterly revenues, since
lower traffic to Answers.com translates into fewer users clicking on or
viewing the advertisements we display. Our current seasonal patterns may
become more pronounced or may change as we grow Answers.com. Further, our
foreign-language versions of WikiAnswers are not yet material to our overall
traffic. As those versions grow, we may find that our current seasonal patterns
will change.


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Monetization




Advertising
Revenue. We earn practically all of our revenue from advertising.
There are two primary categories of Internet advertising: pay-per-performance,
also known as cost-per-click CPC, and pay-per-impression display ads or cost per
1,000 impressions (“CPM”). In the CPC model, we earn revenue based on the number
of clicks associated with an ad; in the CPM model, we derive revenue from the
display of ads. The overwhelming majority of our advertising revenue is earned
from CPC advertising. We obtain all of our CPC, and most of our CPM
advertisements from third-party ad networks. These ad networks compensate us by
paying us a portion of the revenue they earn from advertisers for our provision
of promotional space on our Web properties.




Our primary third
party ad network, Google, accounted for approximately 88% of our total revenue
in the first quarter of 2010, as compared to approximately 91% of our total
revenue for the same period in 2009. We obtain practically all our CPC ads from
Google. In addition to Google, we utilize the services of other third party ad
networks that provide us with CPM ads. We expect that for the foreseeable
future, CPC ads will continue to generate the overwhelming majority of our
revenue, and we have no plans to reduce our reliance on CPC ads.




Our relationship
with Google is governed by our Google Services Agreement, or GSA, which
terminates January 31, 2012. We participate in two Google AdSense programs,
“Adsense for Search” or “AFS” and “Adsense for Content” or “AFC”. AFS is the
online service for distributing relevant ads from Google’s advertisers for
search results on Google Network members’ sites. AFC, on the other hand, is
Google’s online service for distributing ads from its advertisers that are
relevant to content on its Network members’ web sites. Under this program,
Google uses automated technology to analyze the meaning of the content on the
web page and serve relevant ads based on the meaning of such content.
WikiAnswers pages are almost always monetized via AFC ads, while
ReferenceAnswers pages are mostly monetized via AFS ads.




Licensing
Revenue. We earn a negligible portion of our revenues from partners that
pay us for providing them with our answer-based services that they then use in
their own products, via co-branded Web pages.




Costs
and Expenses




Cost
of Revenue




Cost of revenue
consists of compensation, travel and overhead costs relating to personnel who
are engaged in production operations, direct content creation, editing and
integration. Additionally, this expense line includes, fees to third parties to
license and translate content, data center costs, including depreciation of
information technology assets, Web search service fees, ad serving fees,
amortization of the cost of acquired software used in our products, and
contractual revenue sharing fees to various Web property operators for visitors
directed to our Web properties, or traffic acquisition costs.




Research
and Development Expenses




Research and
development expenses consist of compensation, travel and overhead costs of
personnel conducting research and development of our products and services, and
consulting costs. Our research and development team works primarily on projects
to improve and enhance product functionality, quality, performance, scalability,
user interface, and monetization.




Community
Development and Marketing Expenses




Community
development and marketing expenses consist of compensation, travel and overhead
costs of personnel in charge of developing and encouraging the WikiAnswers
community of users asking and answering questions, product management and
marketing.  Additionally, this expense line includes fees for
marketing and market information services, public relations and promotional
costs.


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General
and Administrative Expenses




General and
administrative expenses consist primarily of compensation, travel and overhead
costs for general executive, financial, legal, human resources, and other
administrative personnel, professional services, including investor relations,
legal, accounting, payroll and other consulting services, insurance fees,
amortization of domain names, and other general corporate
expenses.




Overhead
Costs




Overhead costs
consist primarily of rent, telecommunications, utilities and depreciation
expenses.




Stock-Based
Compensation




New employees
typically receive stock option awards within three months of their employment
date. We also grant additional stock option awards to existing employees and
directors. We account for stock-based awards under Accounting Standards
Codification (“ASC”) 718, “Compensation
– Stock Compensation” , which requires measurement of compensation cost
for all stock-based awards at fair value on date of grant and recognition of
compensation over the service period awards are expected to vest. Costs
resulting from stock-based compensation are part of our compensation expense and
are included in the operating expense categories in our Statements of
Operations.




Impact
of Foreign Currency Fluctuations




The dollar cost of
our operations is heavily influenced by changes in the value of the dollar in
relation to the New Israeli Shekel (“NIS”), mostly due to the NIS-based salaries
of our Israel-based employees. Close to half of our operating expenses,
excluding non-cash items such as stock-based compensation, are denominated in
New Israel Shekels. We enter into forward contracts to hedge some of our
NIS-based expenses. Prior to May 2009, these derivatives were not designated as
hedging instruments under the rules of ASC 815,“Derivatives and Hedging”, and therefore, the net gains (losses) arising
from these derivatives were recognized in operating expenses as they occurred.
Starting May 2009, we designated all of our currency hedging activities as cash
flow hedges as they were all eligible. Thus, the change in those hedges are
recorded as other comprehensive income (loss), and are reclassified to earnings
as the forward contracts mature or if, and to the extent that the hedging
relationship is deemed ineffective.




In the first
quarter of 2010, compensation, excluding stock-based compensation (thereafter,
“Cash-Based Compensation”), to employees amounted to $2,181 thousand compared to
$1,728 thousand during the same period in 2009, a net increase of $453 thousand
or 26%. As a result of the weakening of the dollar as compared to the NIS,
Cash-Based Compensation in the first quarter of 2010 increased approximately
$129 thousand, as compared to the same period in 2009. The remaining increase of
$324 thousand is due to increases in headcount and raises.




Our
period-over-period discussion regarding operating expenses includes the impact
of foreign currency on such expenses. We expect our NIS-based expenses in 2010,
to be in excess of 2009 levels. If the dollar continues to fluctuate as compared
to the NIS, we will experience fluctuation in the dollar amount of our NIS-based
expenses.




Interest
Income (Expense), Net




Interest income
(expense), net, is comprised of interest income earned on cash, cash equivalents
and marketable securities, and interest expense on capital leases, transaction
costs we incurred in connection with the issuance of the Series B Warrants in
June 2009 and amortization of deferred costs we incurred in connection with the
issuance of the Series B Unit Warrant, in June 2008.




Other
Income (Expense), Net




Other income
(expense), net, is comprised of foreign currency gains and
losses.


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Gain
Resulting from Fair Value Adjustment of Warrants




The Series A
Warrants, the Series B Warrants and the Series B Unit Warrant (prior to
exercise), which are components of transactions with Redpoint Omega, L.P. and
Redpoint Omega Associates, LLC (collectively, “Redpoint”) are revalued each
reporting date. Any change to their fair value is recorded as a gain or loss in
the Statement of Operations. Background regarding the transaction with Redpoint
follows.




Redpoint
Financings




On June 16,
2008, pursuant to a private placement of our securities, Redpoint purchased $6
million of our Series A Convertible Preferred Stock (60,000 shares),
initially convertible into 1,333,333 shares of common stock at a conversion
price of $4.50 per share, along with Common Stock Purchase Warrants exercisable
for 666,667 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $4.95 per share
(“Series A Warrants”). In conjunction therewith, Redpoint also received a
warrant, referred to as the “Series B Unit Warrant”, exercisable until
June 16, 2009, to purchase units of up to $7 million of Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock (70,000 shares) and Common Stock Purchase Warrants
exercisable for 636,364 shares of common stock (“Series B Warrants”). The
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock is initially convertible into
1,272,727 shares of common stock at an initial conversion price of $5.50 per
share. The Series B Warrants have an exercise price of $6.05 per
share. On June 10, 2009, Redpoint exercised the Series B Unit Warrant, in
full.




After deducting
placement agent fees and legal expenses, our net proceeds from the private
placement, in June 2008, were $5.38 million, while our net proceeds from the
exercise of the Series B Unit warrant, in June 2009, were $6.48 million. The
transaction that took place on June 16, 2008 is referred to as the “Series A
Financing”.  The transaction that took place on June 10, 2009 is
referred to as the “Series B Financing”. The two transactions, in aggregate, are
collectively referred to as the “Redpoint Financings”. The Series A Convertible
Preferred Stock, the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, the Series A Warrants
and the Series B Warrants are collectively referred to as the “Redpoint
Securities”.




The Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock has the rights and preferences set forth in our
Certificate of Designations, Number, Voting Powers, Preferences and Rights of
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock, which, amended our Amended and Restated
Certificate of Incorporation on June 16, 2008. The Series B Convertible
Preferred Stock has the rights and preferences set forth in the Company’s
Certificate of Designations, Number, Voting Powers, Preferences and Rights of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock which amended the Company’s Amended and
Restated Certificate of Incorporation on June 9, 2009. For a detailed
description of the rights and preferences of the Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock and the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock, we refer you to the notes to
the financial statements contained in our annual report.




In connection with
the Redpoint Financings, Redpoint received and exercised their right to appoint
two individuals to serve as voting members of our board of
directors.




Income
Tax Benefit (Expense), Net




Our effective tax
rate differs from the statutory federal rate primarily due to differences
between income and expense recognition prescribed by income tax regulations and
Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. We utilize different methods and
useful lives for depreciating and amortizing property, equipment and intangible
assets and different methods and timing for certain expenses. Furthermore,
permanent differences arise from certain income and expense items recorded for
financial reporting purposes but not recognizable for income tax purposes, and
from certain income and expense items recorded for income tax purposes but not
recognizable for financial reporting purposes. In addition, our income tax
benefit (expense) has been adjusted for the effect of state and local taxes and
foreign income from our wholly owned subsidiary. At March 31, 2010, our deferred
tax assets were almost entirely offset by a valuation allowance. While we had
taxable income in 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, we have experienced a
cumulative loss in recent years and our revenue model continues to be subject to
fluctuations and volatility that impact our ability to accurately forecast our
future expected profitability.  We continue to view these factors as
significant pieces of negative evidence that make it difficult to support a
conclusion that expected taxable income from future operations justifies
recognition of deferred tax assets. Notwithstanding, we will continue to monitor
our profitability as well as the extent of fluctuations and volatility and their
impact on our revenue model. As more information accumulates and to the extent
that we continue to experience sustained profitability in future periods, we
will consider if and when a reversal will be appropriate.


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Our Israeli
subsidiary had net income in 2009 and the first quarter 2010, resulting from
services we received from the Israeli subsidiary. The Israeli subsidiary charges
us for research & development it provides us, plus a profit margin,
currently 8.3%. However, the subsidiary operates primarily through plans
recognized as “approved enterprises” (and a “beneficiary enterprise” as later
amended in amendment No. 60 to the Investment Law) under Israeli law, which
means that income arising from the subsidiary’s approved research &
development activities, is subject to zero percent tax under the “alternative
benefit” path for a period of ten years. Currently, the subsidiary operates
under two separate “approved enterprise” plans, the first one which ended on
December 31, 2009 and the second ending December 31, 2014, and a “beneficiary
enterprise” plan ending December 31, 2017.  After the close of the
first approved enterprise plan in 2009, the subsidiary will have to pay taxes at
the regular corporate income tax rate on the relative proportion of taxable
income attributable to the first approved enterprise plan.




Additionally, the
Israeli subsidiary provides Answers Corporation with certain management services
which it charges at cost plus a profit margin, currently 8.3%. Income derived
from such services is taxable at the Israeli corporate tax rate in effect at the
time (26% and 25% in 2009 and 2010, respectively).




In the event of
distributions by our Israeli subsidiary to Answers Corporation, the Israeli
subsidiary would have to pay a 10% corporate tax on the amount distributed, and
Answers Corporation would have to pay a 15% tax to be withheld at source on the
amounts of such distributions received. Furthermore, Answers Corporation would
be subject to a 35% federal tax on dividends received, before applying any
credits possibly allowed for NOL carryforwards or by the income tax treaty
between the United States and Israel. At present, we do not plan on having the
subsidiary distribute a dividend to Answers Corporation.




RESULTS
OF OPERATIONS




Revenue




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)WikiAnswers
      advertising revenue
            3,162
            
            4,489
            
            1,327ReferenceAnswers
      advertising revenue
            1,567
            
            1,218
            
            (349)Licensing
      revenue
            18
            
            19
            
            14,747
            
            5,726
            
            979







Revenue increased
$979 thousand, or 21%, from $4,747 thousand for the first quarter of 2009 to
$5,726 thousand for the first quarter of 2010.




WikiAnswers’
advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2010 increased $1,327 thousand, or
42%, compared to the same quarter in 2009, due to increased traffic, offset to
some extent by lower RPM. WikiAnswers average daily page views in the first
quarter of 2010 were 8,995,000, an increase of 69% compared to the average daily
page views of 5,337,000 in the same quarter in 2009. We believe that the traffic
growth that WikiAnswers experienced in the first quarter of 2010 as compared to
the same period in 2009 has been primarily due to the dynamics of the property.
As our database of questions and answers has grown, we draw new traffic,
primarily from SEO, which in turn has resulted in the creation of new questions
and answers, or new content, which in turn has driven additional growth. The
growth in revenue from the aforesaid traffic growth was partially offset by a
decrease in our RPM. The average WikiAnswers RPM in the first quarter of 2010
was $5.55, a decrease of 16% compared to the average RPM of $6.58, in the same
quarter in 2009. The decrease in RPM resulted from a decrease in the RPM we earn
from Google AdSense. A very minor portion of the decline in Google Adsense RPM
is attributable to the terms of our renewed GSA, which became effective in
February 2010, while most of that decline is attributable to any or a
combination of a number of possible factors, including, changes we made to the
site, changes that Google may have made to the AdSense algorithm that connects
advertisers and publishers and changes in how advertisers may have managed their
advertising costs in response to uncertain economic conditions.


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ReferenceAnswers’
advertising revenue in the first quarter of 2010 decreased $349 thousand, or
22%, compared to the same period in 2009, due to lower traffic and RPM.
ReferenceAnswers average daily page views in the first quarter of 2010 were
2,737,000, 8% less than average daily page views of 2,982,000 during the same
period in 2009. The loss of the Google definition link in the fourth quarter of
2009 can be attributed as the cause of that decline. ReferenceAnswers traffic in
the first quarter of 2010 is actually approximately 7% higher than
ReferenceAnswers traffic in the same quarter in 2009, excluding the Google
definition link traffic. ReferenceAnswers RPM in the first quarter of 2010 was
$4.94, a decrease of 15%, compared to the RPM of $5.84 in the same period in
2009. The decrease in RPM resulted from a decrease in the RPM we earn from
Google AdSense of approximately 22%, offset somewhat by higher RPM from network
ads. Unlike WikiAnswers, we attribute a significant portion of the decline in
Google Adsense RPM to the terms of our renewed GSA. Since most of
ReferenceAnswers revenue is earned via AFS rather than AFC, it was impacted
differently than WikiAnswers by the GSA’s modified terms. Notwithstanding the
known impact of the GSA on ReferenceAnswers, the possible factors discussed
above with respect to the Google AdSense RPM on WikiAnswers are the same factors
that may have also played a role in determining ReferenceAnswers’ Google AdSense
RPM.




As described in
further detail above, in September 2009, we announced the launch of the new
Answers.com, in recognition of our integration of WikiAnswers and
ReferenceAnswers. The product strategy guiding such integration was our desire
to give users a common address for the best answers to all types of questions –
be they community-generated from WikiAnswers, or editorially licensed from
ReferenceAnswers. In September 2009, we took our final step in this integration
by creating a new unified Answers.com home page and login, integrating features
from both properties, and making other changes in our user interface to
strengthen our positioning as having one dominant product and brand,
Answers.com, comprised by two properties, WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers.
Since the new unified Answers.com home page was designed to give prominence to
WikiAnswers and to encourage users to enter their questions into the site’s
query bar, beginning September 2009, visits to that page, which, at such time,
averaged approximately 175,000 per day, are being recorded as a WikiAnswers
page-view rather than a ReferenceAnswers page-view, contrary to the previous
practice.




FIGS accounted for
$7 thousand of our WikiAnswers revenue during the first quarter of
2010.




Traffic
and Revenue Discussion




The following table
illustrates the historical trends of our two Web properties’ revenues, average
daily page views and RPMs, by quarter, beginning the first quarter of
2009.






2009
            
            2010Q1
            
            Q2
            
            Q3
            
            Q4
            
            Q1Ad
      Revenue
              ($
      - in thousands)WikiAnswers
            3,162
            
            3,400
            
            3,422
            
            4,470
            
            4,489ReferenceAnswers
            1,567
            
            1,585
            
            1,548
            
            1,530
            
            1,218Total
            4,729
            
            4,985
            
            4,970
            
            6,000
            
            5,707WikiAnswers
            67%
            
            68%
            
            69%
            
            75%
            
            79%ReferenceAnswers
            33%
            
            32%
            
            31%
            
            25%
            
            21%Total
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%Traffic
              Average
      Daily Page ViewsWikiAnswers
            5,337,000
            
            6,082,000
            
            6,336,000
            
            8,199,000
            
            8,995,000ReferenceAnswers
            2,982,000
            
            2,965,000
            
            2,857,000
            
            2,737,000
            
            2,737,000Total
            8,319,000
            
            9,047,000
            
            9,193,000
            
            10,936,000
            
            11,732,000WikiAnswers
            64%
            
            67%
            
            69%
            
            75%
            
            77%ReferenceAnswers
            36%
            
            33%
            
            31%
            
            25%
            
            23%Total
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%
            
            100%RPMWikiAnswers
            $6.58
            
            $6.14
            
            $5.87
            
            $5.93
            
            $5.55ReferenceAnswers
            $5.84
            
            $5.87
            
            $5.89
            
            $6.08
            
            $4.94




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The traffic and RPM
trend discussion that follows pertains to our Answers.com English site and not
the FIGS sites that are currently in their infancy.




Since we purchased
WikiAnswers in November 2006, the Web property has grown significantly, both in
terms of traffic and revenue. We believe that the growth that WikiAnswers has
experienced has been primarily due to the dynamics of the property. As our
database of questions and answers has grown, we have drawn new traffic,
primarily from SEO, which in turn has resulted in the creation of new questions
and answers, or new content, which has driven additional
growth. WikiAnswers’ growth has, over time, decelerated, and we believe
that its rate of growth will decelerate further as a result of a number
of possible factors, including the difficulty of maintaining growth
rates as our traffic increases to higher levels.




ReferenceAnswers
average daily page views in the first quarter of 2010 were 8% lower, than the
average daily page views for the same period in 2009. The reason for this
decline was the loss of the Google definition link in the fourth quarter of
2009. ReferenceAnswers traffic in the first quarter of 2010 is actually
approximately 7% higher than ReferenceAnswers traffic in the same quarter in
2009, excluding the Google definition link traffic. Notwithstanding, we are
presently not able to identify a predictable traffic trend for this
property.




As noted earlier,
88% of our revenue in the first quarter of 2010 was earned via Google AdSense.
Since we are not planning to change this dependence anytime in the near future,
our RPM will largely be a function of the revenue we earn from Google AdSense.
We renewed our GSA in October 2009, extending the agreement through January
2012, at financial terms that are slightly less favorable to our overall
business than the terms we had for the two-year period ending January 31,
2010, therefore, barring any other factors; we would expect a slightly lower
Google AdSense RPM for Answers.com in 2010. However, we believe that there are
many other factors, any one of which or a combination thereof, that may impact
our Google AdSense revenue, including changes we make to the site, positioning
of ads, the geographic mix of our traffic, the growing percentage of returning
visitors and changes that Google may make to the algorithm that connects
advertisers and publishers. In addition, advertisers may lower or increase their
bids for keywords in response to how much they are able to make per paid click.
Finally, the increasing maturity of the online advertising market and weak
economic conditions could negatively affect the growth rate of our RPM. As a
result of the multiple possible factors, many of which are not in our control,
we cannot predict whether the RPM declines we have generally seen over the last
several quarters will continue during the rest of 2010. Notwithstanding, we
experinced an RPM decline of approximately 7% in April 2010, as compared to the
RPM during the first quarter of 2010.




Costs
and Expenses




Cost
of Revenue


Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Cost of
      revenue
            1,059
            
            1,437
            
            378




Cost of revenue
increased $378 thousand, or 36%, from $1,059 thousand in the first quarter of
2009, to $1,437 thousand for the same period in 2010. The change in cost of
revenue was due primarily to an increase of $111 thousand in compensation costs,
excluding stock based compensation, due to increased headcount and raises, an
increase of $122 thousand in data center costs and a $29 thousand increase in
overhead expenses. Additionally, at the end of 2009 we started translating
WikiAnswers into FIGS language versions of WikiAnswers. Thus, we incurred
translation expenses of $251 thousand in the first quarter of 2010, an expense
we did not incur in the same period in 2009. The aforesaid increases were
partially offset by decreases in content licensing, recruiting fees and use
taxes, which, in aggregate, amounted to $123 thousand and a decrease of $6
thousand in stock-based compensation.


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Research
and Development Expenses




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Research and
      development
            873
            
            1,061
            
            188




Research and
development expenses increased $188 thousand, or 22%, from $873 thousand in the
first quarter of 2009, to $1,061 thousand for the same period in 2010. The
change in research and development expenses was due primarily to an increase of
$176 thousand in compensation related expenses, excluding stock based
compensation, due to increased headcount and raises, and an increase in overhead
expenses of $22 thousand. The aforesaid increases were partially offset by a
decrease of $10 thousand in stock-based compensation.




Community
Development and Marketing Expenses




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Community
      development and marketing
            499
            
            744
            
            245




Community
development and marketing expenses increased $245 thousand, or 49%, from $499
thousand in the first quarter of 2009, to $744 thousand, for the same period in
2010. The primary factors that caused this increase was that compensation
related expenses, excluding stock based compensation, increased $119 thousand,
due to increased headcount and raises, and promotional and marketing costs,
including WikiAnswers community events and public relations firm fees, increased
$95 thousand. Stock based compensation increased $1 thousand.




General
and Administrative Expenses




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)General and
      administrative
            1,219
            
            1,257
            
            38




General and
administrative expenses increased $38 thousand, or 3%, from $1,219 thousand in
the first quarter of 2009, to $1,257 thousand for the same period in 2010. The
change in general and administrative expenses was due primarily to the following
factors: Compensation costs, excluding stock based compensation, increased by
$46 thousand, due to raises, expenses with regard to investor relations
increased by $23 thousand, and non-income related taxes increased by $50
thousand. The aforesaid increases were partially offset by decreases of $20
thousand in accounting and legal fees, $59 thousand in stock based compensation,
and $23 thousand in amortization expenses of intangible assets, since a
WikiAnswers covenant not to compete was fully amortized in October
2009.


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Interest
Income (Expense), Net




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Interest
      income (expense), net
            (87)
            
            11
            
            98




Interest income
(expense), net, changed by $98 thousand, from $(87) thousand expense, net, in
the first quarter of 2009, to $11 thousand income, net, for the same period in
2010. The change in interest income (expense), net, resulted mostly from the
following matters: In the first quarter of 2009, we recorded $91 thousand of
amortization relating to $363 thousand of transaction costs that we incurred in
connection with the Series B Unit Warrant in June 2008, which were fully
amortized by the end of the second quarter of 2009. Also, interest earned from
our cash and cash equivalents and marketable securities in the first quarter of
2010 was $13 thousand, compared to $5 thousand for the same period in 2009, due
to larger balances.




Other
Income (Expense), Net




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Other income
      (expense), net
            15
            
            (8)
            
            (23)




Other income
(expense), net, changed $23 thousand, from $15 thousand net income in the first
quarter of 2009, to $(8) thousand net expense in 2010.  Other income
(expense), net, results from foreign currency net gains and losses.




Gain
Resulting from Fair Value Adjustments of Warrants




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Gain
      resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants
            2,010
            
            615
            
            (1,395)




The Series A
Warrants and Series B Warrants are revalued each reporting date, and any change
to their fair value is recorded in the statement of operations. The Warrant to
Purchase Units of Series B Preferred Stock and Warrants was, up to its exercise
in June 2009, also revalued each reporting period and the change in its fair
value was recorded in the statement of operations.




The primary reason
for the change in value of the aforesaid warrants is the market price of our
common stock on the measurement dates. An increase in the price of our common
stock increases the value of the warrants and thus results in a loss on our
statement of operations. Conversely, a decline in the price of our common stock
decreases the value of the warrants and thus results in a gain on our statement
of operations.


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Income
Tax Benefit (Expense), Net




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010
            
            Change($
      - in thousands)Income tax
      benefit (expense), net
            6
            
            (91)
            
            (97)




Income tax benefit
(expense), net, changed by $97 thousand, from $6 thousand tax benefit in the
first quarter of 2009 to $(91) thousand tax expense in the same period in 2010.
The change in tax expense was primarily the result of increased estimated taxes
to federal and state and local authorities of $32 thousand compared to the same
period last year. Furthermore, the first of the approved enterprise programs of
our Israeli subsidiary expired at the end of 2009; consequently, Israeli income
taxes for the first quarter of 2010 have been estimated to increase by
approximately $25 thousand over the same period in 2009.  In addition,
during the first quarter of 2010, the Israeli Subsidiary recognized an increase
in its deferred tax assets resulting in an income tax benefit of approximately
$8 thousand as compared to the $52 thousand tax benefit that had been recorded
in the first quarter of 2009.




We had net
operating loss (“NOL”) carryforwards for federal income tax purposes of
approximately $53 million at December 31, 2009. The federal NOLs will expire if
not utilized on various dates from 2021 through 2028. Section 382 of the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (“Section 382”) generally imposes an annual
limitation on the amount of NOL carryforwards that may be used to offset taxable
income where a corporation has undergone significant changes in its stock
ownership. We estimate two ownership changes, as defined under Section 382, have
occurred, that would trigger this limitation. Based on our current estimates and
assumptions, we may currently use approximately $36 million of our accumulated
NOLs.  The remaining approximate $17 million NOL is available to
offset taxable income in an amount of approximately $1.4 million per year.
Any unused portion of the $1.4 million is available for use in future years
until such NOL is scheduled to expire. The Subsidiary has capital loss
carryforwards of approximately $790 thousand, which can be applied to future
capital gains for an unlimited period of time under current tax
rules.




We file federal
income tax returns in the U.S., as well as various state & local and foreign
jurisdictions tax returns. We are no longer subject to U.S. federal income tax
examinations by tax authorities for years prior to 2006. Our Israeli subsidiary
is no longer subject to foreign income tax examinations by tax authorities for
years prior to 2007 but is currently undergoing an audit by the Israeli tax
authorities for the tax years 2007 and 2008.




LIQUIDITY
AND CAPITAL RESOURCES




Our principal
ongoing source of operating liquidity is the cash generated by our advertising
revenue. In addition, we are highly liquid due to the $11.9 million we raised
from the Redpoint Financings that took place in June 2008 and June
2009.




Three
      Months Ended March 312009
            
            2010($
      - in thousands)Net cash
      provided by operating activities
            1,241
            
            1,569Net cash used
      in investing activities
            (219)
            
            (3,628)Net cash used
      in financing activities
            (102)
            
            (168)




Operating
Activities




Net income in the
first quarter of 2009 was $3,041 thousand, and net cash provided by operations
was $1,241 thousand. The adjustments to reconcile the two amounts, including
changes to the balances of our various operating assets and liabilities, are
noted in detail on the accompanying statement of cash flows. The largest
reconciling item is the non-cash gain resulting from the fair value adjustment
of the Series A Purchase Warrants and Series B Unit Warrant of $2,010
thousand.


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Net income in the
first quarter of 2010 was $1,754 thousand, and net cash provided by operations
was $1,569 thousand. The adjustments to reconcile the two amounts, including
changes to the balances of our various operating assets and liabilities, are
noted in detail on the accompanying statement of cash flows. The largest
reconciling items are the non-cash gain resulting from the fair value adjustment
of the warrants of $615 thousand, stock-based compensation of $313 thousand, and
depreciation and amortization of $300 thousand.




Investing
Activities




Net cash used in
investing activities of $219 thousand, in the first quarter of 2009, is
attributable to cash used for capital expenditures of $212 thousand, and cash
used to increase long-term deposits of $7 thousand.




Net cash used in
investing activities of $3,628 thousand, in the first quarter of 2010, is
attributable almost entirely to cash used to purchase marketable securities of
$3,516 thousand, and capital expenditures of $118 thousand.




Financing
Activities




Cash flow used in
financing activities of $102 thousand in the first quarter of 2009, stems from
$91 thousand of dividend payments and a $19 thousand repayment of a capital
lease obligation, less $8 thousand of net proceeds from the exercise of stock
options.




Cash flow used in
financing activities of $168 thousand in the first quarter of 2010, stems from
$194 thousand of dividend payments and a $20 thousand repayment of a capital
lease obligation, less $46 thousand of net proceeds from the exercise of stock
options.




Future
Operations




Based on our
current cash and cash equivalents, marketable securities and expected cash flow
from operations, we believe we have sufficient cash and cash equivalents to meet
our working capital and operating requirements for at least the next twelve
months.




We assess
acquisition opportunities as they arise. Financing in excess of our current cash
and cash equivalents may be required if we decide to make additional
acquisitions. There can be no assurance, however, that any such opportunities
may arise, or that any such acquisitions may be consummated. Additional
financing may not be available on satisfactory terms when required. To the
extent that we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our
stockholders may experience significant dilution.




The Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock and the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock issued
in connection with the Redpoint Financings, contain redemption provisions which
allow the holders of a majority of the Series A Convertible Preferred Stock and
the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock to request redemption, at any time on
or after June 16, 2014, of all or any part of their stock.




OFF-BALANCE
SHEET ARRANGEMENTS




As of March 31,
2010, there were no off-balance sheet arrangements.




CRITICAL
ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES




While our
significant accounting policies are more fully described in the notes to our
audited consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31,
2008 and 2009, and our unaudited financial statements for the quarters ended
March 31, 2009 and 2010, we believe the following accounting policies to be the
most critical in understanding the judgments and estimates we use in preparing
our consolidated financial statements.




Goodwill,
Intangibles and Other Long-Lived Assets




We account for our
purchases of acquired companies in accordance with ASC 805, “Business
Combinations )formerly SFAS 141(, and for goodwill and other
identifiable definite and indefinite-lived acquired intangible assets in
accordance with ASC 350, “Intangibles
– Goodwill and Other” (formerly SFAS 142, “Goodwill
and Other Intangible Assets”). Additionally, we review our long-lived
assets for recoverability in accordance with ASC 360, “Property,
Plant and Equipment”(formerly SFAS 144, “Accounting
for the Impairment or Disposal of Long-Lived Assets”).


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The identification
and valuation of intangible assets and the determination of the estimated useful
lives at the time of acquisition are based on various valuation methodologies
including reviews of projected future cash flows. The use of alternative
estimates and assumptions could increase or decrease the estimated fair value of
our goodwill and other intangible assets, and potentially result in a different
impact to our results of operations. Further, changes in business strategy
and/or market conditions may significantly impact these judgments thereby
impacting the fair value of these assets, which could result in an impairment of
the goodwill and acquired intangible assets.




We evaluate our
long-lived tangible and intangible assets for impairment in accordance with
ASC 350, with the annual goodwill impairment testing date set at September
30. Further, in accordance with ASC 360 and ASC 350, we also evaluate our
long-lived tangible and intangible assets, respectively, for impairment whenever
events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset
may not be recoverable.  If such assets are considered to be impaired,
the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying
amount of the assets exceeds the fair value of the assets. While we use
available information to prepare our estimates and to perform impairment
evaluations, the completion of annual impairment tests requires significant
management judgments and estimates.




As of March 31,
2010, we determined that there were no events or changes in circumstances
indicating that the carrying amount of our intangible and other long-lived
assets may not be recoverable; therefore, there was no need to evaluate the
recoverability or compute impairment of any of the aforesaid
assets.




Accounting
for Stock-based Compensation




We account for
stock-based awards under ASC 718, “Compensation
– Stock Compensation”(formerly SFAS 123R, “Share-Based
Payment”), which requires measurement of compensation cost for
stock-based awards at fair value on date of grant and recognition of
compensation over the service period awards are expected to vest. The estimation
of stock-based awards that will ultimately vest requires judgment, and to the
extent actual results differ from our estimates, such amounts will be recorded
as a cumulative adjustment in the period estimates are revised. We consider
various factors when estimating expected forfeitures, including historical
experience. Actual results may differ substantially from these
estimates.




We determine the
fair value of stock options granted to employees and directors using the
Black-Scholes valuation model, which requires significant assumptions regarding
the expected stock price volatility, the risk-free interest rate and the
dividend yield, and the estimated period of time option grants will be
outstanding before they are ultimately exercised. We estimate our expected stock
volatility based on our own historical stock volatility rates. Had we made
different assumptions about our stock price volatility or the estimated time
option and warrant grants will be outstanding before they are ultimately
exercised, the related stock based compensation expense, and our net income
(loss) and net earnings (loss) per share amounts could have been significantly
different than reported amounts.




Accounting
for Income Taxes




As part of the
process of preparing our consolidated financial statements, we are required to
estimate our income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. This
process involves management estimating our actual current tax exposure together
with assessing temporary differences resulting from differing treatment of items
for tax and accounting purposes. These differences result in deferred tax assets
and liabilities, which are included within our consolidated balance sheet. We
must then assess the likelihood that our deferred tax assets will be recovered
from future taxable income and, to the extent we believe that recovery is not
more likely than not, we must establish a valuation allowance. Significant
management judgment is required in determining our provision for income taxes,
our deferred tax assets and liabilities and any valuation allowance recorded
against our net deferred tax assets. At March 31, 2010, we have fully offset our
U.S. net deferred tax asset with a valuation allowance. While we had
taxable income in 2009 and the first quarter of 2010, we have experienced a
cumulative loss in recent years and our revenue model continues to be subject to
fluctuations and volatility that impact our ability to accurately forecast our
future expected profitability.  We continue to view these factors as
significant pieces of negative evidence that make it difficult to support a
conclusion that expected taxable income from future operations justifies
recognition of deferred tax assets. Notwithstanding, we will continue to monitor
our profitability as well as the extent of fluctuations and volatility and their
impact on our revenue model. As more information accumulates and to the extent
that we continue to experience sustained profitability in future periods, we
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ASC 740, “Income
Taxes” (formerly FASB Interpretation No. 48, “Accounting
for Uncertainty in Income Taxes — an Interpretation of FASB Statement
109”), prescribes how a company should recognize, measure, present and
disclose in its financial statements uncertain tax positions that the company
has taken or expects to take on a tax return. Additionally, for tax positions to
qualify for deferred tax benefit recognition under ASC 740, the position must
have at least a “more likely than not” chance of being sustained upon challenge
by the respective taxing authorities, and whether or not it means that criteria
is a matter if significant judgment.




We have not
provided U.S. and Israeli income taxes and withholding taxes on the
undistributed earnings of our Israeli subsidiary as of March 31, 2010
because we intend to permanently reinvest such earnings outside the U.S. As of
March 31, 2010, the cumulative amount of earnings upon which U.S. income
taxes have not been provided is approximately $4.6 million. We make an
evaluation at the end of each reporting period as to whether or not the
undistributed earnings of our foreign subsidiary are permanently reinvested.
While, to date, we have concluded that such undistributed earnings are
permanently reinvested, facts and circumstances may change in the future.
Changes in facts and circumstances may include a change in the estimated capital
needs of our foreign subsidiaries, or a change in our corporate liquidity
requirements. Such changes could result in our management determining that some
or all of such undistributed earnings are no longer permanently reinvested. In
that event, we would be required to recognize income tax liabilities on the
assumption that our foreign undistributed earnings will be distributed to the
U.S.




Accounting
for Redpoint Financings




In accounting for
the Series A Financing, the proceeds were first allocated to the Series B Unit
Warrant, which was classified as a current liability, based on its fair value,
and the residual amount was allocated among the Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock and the Series A Warrants based on their relative fair values, all in
accordance with the guidance in ASC 480, “Distinguishing
Liabilities from Equity” (formerlySFAS 150, “Accounting
for Certain Financial Instruments with Characteristics of both Liabilities and
Equity”), ASC 815,“Derivatives and Hedging”(formerly SFAS 133,“Accounting for Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities”) and
ASC 815–40, “Derivatives
and hedging – Contracts in Entity’s Own Equity”(formerly EITF 00-19,
”Accounting
for Derivative Financial Instruments Indexed to, and Potentially Settled in, a
Company’s Own Stock”). The Series B Unit Warrant has been revalued at
each reporting date, since its inception until it was exercised on June 10,
2009. The Series A Convertible Preferred Stock has been classified as temporary
equity, in accordance with the guidance in ASC 480-10-S99A (formerly EITF
D-98, “Classification
and Measurement of Redeemable Securities”),and, prior to January 1, 2009,
the Series A Warrants were classified in permanent equity.




As a result of EITF
07-5, “Determining
Whether an Instrument (or Embedded Feature) Is Indexed to an Entity’s Own
Stock” (incorporated in ASC 815–40), effective January 1, 2009, and
due to the Down-Round Protection of the Series A Warrants, such warrants are,
effective January 1, 2009, separately accounted for as a derivative under
ASC 815 and are no longer recorded in equity but rather as a liability to
be revalued at each reporting date.




On June 10, 2009,
Redpoint exercised, in full, the Series B Unit Warrant, which was valued at
approximately $10.8 million on such date, thus extinguishing this liability from
our balance sheet through a corresponding increase to additional paid-in
capital. In accounting for the Series B Financing, the proceeds were first
allocated to the Series B Warrants which were classified as a liability, based
on its fair value, and the residual amount was allocated to the Series B
Convertible Preferred Stock, all in accordance with the guidance in
ASC 480,ASC 815 and ASC 815-40. The Series B Convertible Preferred
Stock has been classified as temporary equity, in accordance with the guidance
in ASC 480-10-S99A.




We used various
valuation models and techniques to determine the individual values of the
various components in the Redpoint Financings, including Monte Carlo and
Black-Scholes. Inputs used in the models include our stock price and risk-free
interest rate. Additionally, significant assumptions used in applying these
techniques included redemption behavior estimates (including likelihood of
forced conversion, and timing of liquidation event if such event transpires) and
expected volatility of our stock price. While we believe we applied appropriate
judgment in the aforesaid assumptions, variations in judgment could have
materially affected the valuation results, and thus, our financial statements.
We continue to use the Black-Scholes valuation model in our periodic fair value
adjustments.





The Series A
Convertible Preferred Stock and the Series B Convertible Preferred Stock issued
as part of the Redpoint Financings contain an embedded conversion option which
could potentially require separate accounting under ASC 815. According to
ASC  815-15 (formerly paragraph 12(a) of SFAS 133), in order to determine
whether separate accounting is required, one has to evaluate whether the
economic characteristics and risks of the conversion option are closely related
to the host contract, and the nature of the host contract.  We
exercised judgment and evaluated this matter in accordance with ASC 815-10
(formerly EITF Topic D-109, "Determining
the Nature of a Host Contract Related to a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in
the Form of a Share under FASB Statement No.133"). ASC 815-10
conveys the SEC staff's views on determining whether the characteristics of a
host contract in a hybrid financial instrument issued in the form of a share is
more akin to debt or equity. In evaluating an embedded derivative feature for
separation under ASC 815, the consideration of the economic characteristics
and risks of the host contract should not ignore the stated or implied
substantive terms and features of the hybrid financial instrument. We considered
various factors including redemption provisions, stated rate, voting rights,
whether returns are discretionary or mandatory, collateral requirements,
participation in residual earnings and liquidation preferences, in making our
determination that the host contract was more akin to equity. The most important
factor that led us to the conclusion that the host contract was more akin to
equity was the fact that the redemption feature was not mandatory or likely to
occur. Had we determined that the host contract was more akin to debt and not
equity it would have impacted the accounting for the host contract and the
embedded conversion option and could have had a material impact on our financial
statements.


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QUARTERLY
RESULTS




The following table
sets forth our historical quarterly consolidated statement of operations data
and certain non-GAAP financial measures beginning with the first quarter of
2009. You should read this information together with our consolidated financial
statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in our filings. The results
of historical periods are not necessarily indicative of the results of
operations for a full year or any future period.






Quarter
      EndedMar.
      31,
              2009
            
            Jun.
      30,
              2009
            
            Sep.
      30,
              2009
            
            Dec.
      31, 2009
            
            Mar.
      31,
              2010(in
      thousands, except page views and RPM data)Revenues:Advertising
      revenue
            $4,729
            
            $4,985
            
            4,970
            
            $6,000
            
            $5,707Answers
      services licensing
            18
            
            19
            
            17
            
            17
            
            194,747
            
            5,004
            
            4,987
            
            6,017
            
            5,726Costs
      and expenses:Cost of
      revenue
            1,059
            
            1,166
            
            1,264
            
            1,307
            
            1,437Research and
      development
            873
            
            817
            
            921
            
            997
            
            1,061Community
      development and marketing
            499
            
            558
            
            621
            
            781
            
            744General and
      administrative
            1,219
            
            1,248
            
            1,201
            
            1,231
            
            1,257Total
      operating expenses
            3,650
            
            3,789
            
            4,007
            
            4,316
            
            4,499Operating
      income (loss)
            1,097
            
            1,215
            
            980
            
            1,701
            
            1,227Interest
      income (expense), net
            (87)
            
            (362)
            
            4
            
            5
            
            11Other income
      (expense), net
            15
            
            (9)
            
            (5)
            
            5
            
            (8)Gain (loss)
      resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants, net
            2,010
            
            (4,385)
            
            (999)
            
            740
            
            615Income
      (loss) before income taxes
            3,035
            
            (3,541)
            
            (20)
            
            2,451
            
            1,845Income tax
      benefit (expense), net
            6
            
            (78)
            
            (50)
            
            (43)
            
            (91)Net
      income (loss)
            $3,041
            
            $(3,619)
            
            $(70)
            
            $2,408
            
            1,754Other
      Data:Adjusted
      EBITDA(1)
            $1,744
            
            $1,895
            
            $1,708
            
            $2,389
            
            $1,840WikiAnswers
      average daily page views
            5,337,000
            
            6,082,000
            
            6,336,000
            
            8,199,000
            
            8,995,000ReferenceAnswers
      average daily page views
            2,982,000
            
            2,965,000
            
            2,857,000
            
            2,737,000
            
            2,737,000WikiAnswers
      RPM
            $6.58
            
            $6.14
            
            $5.87
            
            $5.93
            
            $5.55ReferenceAnswers
      RPM
            $5.84
            
            $5.87
            
            $5.89
            
            $6.08
            
            $4.94






(1)  We
define Adjusted EBITDA as net earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation,
amortization, gain (loss) resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants,
stock-based compensation and foreign currency exchange rate
differences.




We use Adjusted
EBITDA as an additional measure of our overall performance for purposes of
business decision-making, developing budgets and managing expenditures. It is
useful because it removes the impact of our capital structure (interest expense
and gain (loss) resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants), asset base
(amortization and depreciation), stock-based compensation expenses, taxes, and
foreign currency exchange rate differences from our results of operations. We
believe that the presentation of Adjusted EBITDA provides useful information to
investors in their analysis of our results of operations for reasons similar to
the reasons why we find it useful and because these measures enhance their
overall understanding of the financial performance and prospects of our ongoing
business operations. By reporting Adjusted EBITDA, we provide a basis for
comparison of our business operations between current, past and future periods,
and peer companies in our industry.


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More specifically,
we believe that removing these impacts is important for several
reasons:




·
            Amortization
      of Intangible Assets. Adjusted EBITDA disregards amortization of
      intangible assets. Specifically, we exclude the amortization of intangible
      assets resulting from the acquisition of WikiAnswers and other related
      assets in November 2006. This acquisition resulted in operating expenses
      that would not otherwise have been incurred. We believe that excluding
      such expenses is significant to investors, due to the fact that they
      derive from prior acquisition decisions and are not necessarily indicative
      of future cash operating costs. In addition, we believe that the amount of
      such expenses in any specific period may not directly correlate to the
      underlying performance of our business operations. While we exclude the
      aforesaid expenses from Adjusted EBITDA we do not exclude revenues derived
      as a result of such acquisitions. The amount of revenue that resulted from
      the acquisition of WikiAnswers and other related assets is disclosed in
      the revenue discussion of this Item
2.






·
            Stock-based
      Compensation Expense. Adjusted EBITDA disregards expenses associated with
      stock-based compensation, a non-cash expense arising from the grant of
      stock-based awards to employees and directors. We believe that, because of
      the variety of equity awards used by companies, the varying methodologies
      for determining stock-based compensation expense, and the subjective
      assumptions involved in those determinations, excluding stock-based
      compensation from Adjusted EBITDA enhances the ability of management and
      investors to compare financial results over multiple
    periods.




·
            Depreciation,
      Interest, Gain (Loss) Resulting from Fair Value Adjustment of warrants,
      Taxes and Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Differences. We believe that,
      excluding these items from the Adjusted EBITDA measure provides investors
      with additional information to measure our performance, by excluding
      potential differences caused by variations in capital structures
      (affecting interest expense), asset composition, and tax
      positions.




Adjusted EBITDA is
not a measure of liquidity or financial performance under generally accepted
accounting principles, or GAAP, and should not be considered in isolation from,
or as a substitute for, a measure of financial performance prepared in
accordance with GAAP. Investors are cautioned that there are inherent
limitations associated with the use of Adjusted EBITDA as an analytical tool.
Some of these limitations are:




·
            Non-GAAP
      financial measures are not based on a comprehensive set of accounting
      rules or principles;




·
            Many of the
      adjustments to Adjusted EBITDA reflect the exclusion of items that are
      recurring and will be reflected in our financial results for the
      foreseeable future;




·
            Other
      companies, including other companies in our industry, may calculate
      Adjusted EBITDA differently than us, thus limiting its usefulness as a
      comparative tool;




·
            Adjusted
      EBITDA does not reflect the periodic costs of certain tangible and
      intangible assets used in generating revenues in our
    business;




·
            Adjusted
      EBITDA does not reflect interest income from our investments in cash and
      investment securities;




·
            Adjusted
      EBITDA does not reflect gains and losses from foreign currency exchange
      rate differences;




·
            Adjusted
      EBITDA does not reflect interest expense and other cost relating to
      financing our business, including gains and losses resulting from fair
      value adjustment of Redpoint Venture’s
warrants;




·
            Adjusted
      EBITDA excludes taxes, which are an integral cost of doing
      business; and




·
            Because
      Adjusted EBITDA does not include stock-based compensation, it does not
      reflect the cost of granting employees equity awards, a key factor in
      management’s ability to hire and retain
  employees.




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We compensate for
these limitations by providing specific information in the reconciliation to the
GAAP amounts excluded from Adjusted EBITDA, as follows:




Quarter
      EndedMar. 31,
              2009
            
            Jun. 30,
              2009
            
            Sep. 30,
              2009
            
            Dec. 31,
              2009
            
            Mar. 31,
              2010(in
      thousands)Net
      income (loss)
            $3,041
            
            $(3,619)
            
            $(70)
            
            $2,408
            
            $1,754Interest
      (income) expense, net
            87
            
            362
            
            (4)
            
            (5)
            
            (11)Foreign
      currency (gains) losses
            (15)
            
            9
            
            5
            
            (5)
            
            8Income tax
      (benefit) expense, net
            (6)
            
            78
            
            50
            
            43
            
            91Depreciation
      and amortization
            261
            
            299
            
            328
            
            302
            
            300Stock-based
      compensation
            386
            
            381
            
            400
            
            386
            
            313(Gain) loss
      resulting from fair value adjustment of warrants
            (2,010)
            
            4,385
            
            999
            
            (740)
            
            (615)Adjusted
      EBITDA
            $1,744
            
            $1,895
            
            $1,708
            
            $2,389
            
            $1,840






Our
2010 Outlook




We see our business
consisting ofcore
platformplusproduct
extensions. We plan to invest
in our core platform and product extensions in 2010.




The core platform
is Answers.com in English, comprised of WikiAnswers and ReferenceAnswers. We
will continue to invest resources in our core platform in areas such as content
quality, maintaining and improving search engine optimization, performance,
scalability, and usability. In particular, we see content quality as the single
biggest opportunity andchallenge of WikiAnswers. To date, the essential driving force behind the
growth of traffic continues to be the expansion of our database of questions and
answers. Content quality plays a crucial role in our search engine rankings, as
well as user experience. This fundamental relationship drives our product and
community directions. We are also investing in the creation of an Application
Programmer’s Interface in order to allow for the design of future product
extensions and functionalities originating from third parties.




In addition to the
FIGS product extension which has already commenced, there are three additional
product extensions areas that we are planning in the realm of mobile,
social media and video. Users are not always in front of a desktop or laptop
when they need answers, and market research, as well as recent announcements by
Apple, Google and others, point to the expected growth of handheld Internet
access devices. We think that mobile Answers.com access could add usage, greater
engagement, and brand recognition. In terms of connecting more aggressively to
social media, we’ve taken first steps, in the form of our Facebook Connect
solution announced in January 2010, which allows users to log into Answers.com
using their Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo or Google identity. In April 2010 we
introduced the alpha Twitter feature, code-named "Hoopoe” that delivers instant
answers to users who tweet their Twitter questions to@AnswersDotComor include
the hashtag #AnswersDotCom. Answers.com then searches for a good match and
offers a reply with a snippet and link to the full answer, if available. Our
goal is to further address the social answers space by more tightly integrating
the question-answering process with popular social networks. Lastly, video is
another natural extension of our Web-based text solution, and we intend to
expand our offering of video content to users visiting
Answers.com.




None of the product
extensions we are planning in 2010, including FIGS, are likely to produce
significant amounts of revenue in 2010.


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ITEM4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES




Based on an
evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in
Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended) required by paragraph (b) of Rule 13a-15 or
Rule 15d-15, as of March 31, 2010, our Chief Executive Officer and
Principal Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and
procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to be disclosed
by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act is recorded,
processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the
Commission’s rules and forms. Our Chief Executive Officer and Principal
Financial Officer also concluded that, as of March 31, 2010, our disclosure
controls and procedures were effective in ensuring that information required to
be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Exchange Act
is accumulated and communicated to our management, including our Chief Executive
Officer and Principal Financial Officer, to allow timely decisions regarding
required disclosure.




During the three
months ended March 31, 2010, there were no changes in our internal control over
financial reporting identified in connection with the evaluation required by
paragraph (d) of Rule 13a-15 or Rule 15d-15 that has materially affected, or is
reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial
reporting.


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PART
II. OTHER INFORMATION





ITEM1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS




We are not
currently involved in any legal proceedings. However, from time to time, we may
receive various legal claims incidental to our normal business activities, such
as intellectual property infringement claims and claims of defamation and
invasion of privacy. Although the results of claims cannot be predicted with
certainty, we believe the final outcome of such matters will not have a material
adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, or cash flows.
Regardless of the outcome, litigation can have an adverse impact on us because
of defense costs, diversion of management resources, and other factors. In
addition, it is possible that an unfavorable resolution of any proceeding could
in the future materially and adversely affect our financial position, results of
operations, or cash flows.




ITEM2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF
PROCEEDS
 
 N/A





ITEM3. DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES





N/A




ITEM4. (REMOVED AND RESERVED)






ITEM5. OTHER INFORMATION




N/A




ITEM6. EXHIBITS




31.1
            
            Certification of Chief Executive Officer required under
      Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) under the Exchange
    Act.31.2
            
            Certification of Principal Financial Officer required
      under Rule 13a-14(a)/15d-14(a) under the Exchange
      Act.32.1
            
            Certification of Chief Executive Officer pursuant to 18
      U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the
      Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.32.2
            
            Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to
      18 U.S.C Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the
      Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.


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SIGNATURES




Pursuant to the
requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly
caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.






ANSWERS
      CORPORATION(Registrant)Date: May 5,
      2010
            By:
            /s/ Robert S.
      RosenscheinRobert S.
      RosenscheinChief
      Executive OfficerDate: May 5,
      2010
            By:
            /s/ Steven
      SteinbergSteven
      SteinbergChief
      Financial Officer(Principal
      Financial Officer)