Answers Corporation, the producer of Blufr, one of my favorite websites, has acquired FAQ Farm today for $2 million. FAQ Farm is a leading wiki website that contains user-contributed questions and answers. On the homepage, FAQ Farm boasts “118,585 FAQ Farmers are now growing 282,713 questions in 1,356 FAQs for millions of visitors.” FAQ Farm receives over 12 million pageviews per month.

“The acquisition of FAQ Farm is the next logical step forward in our mission of becoming the leading online answer-engine, whether answers come from our existing library of licensed, branded, attributable reference titles, from the web, or now from a community of experts or interested participants,” stated Bob Rosenschein, the CEO of Anwers.com. “We aim to satisfy our growing dedicated user base by expanding beyond our strength in traditional reference material to embrace the community aspect of learning.”

FAQ Farm was founded in 2002 by Chris Witten. Answers.com will have Chris continue to maintain FAQ Farm and have FAQ Farm integrate the website’s content into Answers.com while adding Answers.com content to FAQ Farm.

“FAQ Farm will complement our encyclo diction almanac apedia of nearly four million topics by allowing users to ask questions or look up related answers on a specific Answers topic,” Rosenschein, “An interactive relationship can tap into the wisdom of many people and enable them to become part of something bigger.”

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Blufr is a trivia website created by the masterminds of Answers.com. You know how some people say that knowledge is power? This is a way to attain knowledge in a fun way!

On the homepage of blufr.com, you are poised with certain questions and the point is not to get bluf’d so you can earn points and become the über-bluf master. To start the game, start answering away at the questions. When you feel you are done, click on “Claim My Score” and then enter your initials and personal website. Your score has the potential to be in the top 20 scores, top blufs, and random blufs that are placed on the homepage. Users can also submit a bluf thus building the database of questions offered on the website.

“NO WAY!” “WAY!” These are the options that you can choose which are the equivalent of True and False. For the questions that you get wrong, you will not be awarded a point in your score tally. Also, if you get it wrong, then don’t feel bad because blufr also calculates the percentage of other people that got the question wrong.

Another amusing feature blufr has is “blufr face.” Right on the homepage, a random picture of a user with a funny face is loaded next to the blufr logo. Any user can take a picture and submit it to blufrfaces@answers.com. There are also options to embed your blufr score to your personal blogs or MySpace profiles as well. You can also embed blufr questions on your website or e-mail signatures.

Blufr is currently open to anyone. Registration is not required to play. Blufr’s openness and addictiveness will undoubtedly facilitate its viral growth. It’s a simple concept that works well to keep users engaged. Plus you learn something new each time you visit the site.