Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Answers
The 20 closest question-and-answer site alternatives to Answers, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 16 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Answers? The closest matches are Quora, Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Answers
Answers answers.com
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Wikidata: question-and-answer website
Summary by Claude
A question-and-answer website with a large archive of user-generated questions and answers across topics such as science, math, health and history, plus AI chatbot personalities that answer questions and offer conversational advice.
- Who it’s for
- General web users and students
- Business model
- Advertising
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Answers’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Answers
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Answers, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
American question-and-answer website
Very close cos 0.949 - 02
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.938 - 03
Hot Questions - Stack Exchange
Stack Overflow – 180+ community-powered knowledge sites.
Very close cos 0.935 - 04
Perplexity
Perplexity is a free AI-powered answer engine that provides accurate, trusted, and real-time answers to any question.
Very close cos 0.929 - 05 Very close cos 0.921
- 06
Wolfram|Alpha: Computational Intelligence
Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. For math, science, nutrition, history, geography, engineering, mathematics, linguistics, sports, finance, music…
Very close cos 0.918 - 07
Google
search engine by Google LLC
Very close cos 0.921 - 08
American social news aggregation website and discussion portal
Very close cos 0.915 - 09
Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Very close cos 0.910 - 10
tripadvisor.com
American travel website company
Very close cos 0.911 - 11
product discovery website
Very close cos 0.909 - 12
Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
Very close cos 0.907 - 13
American media company
Very close cos 0.908 - 14
ResearchGate - Temporarily Unavailable
commercial scientific social network
Very close cos 0.907 - 15
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.908 - 16
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.908 - 17
Snopes.com | The definitive fact-checking site and reference source for urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
The definitive Internet reference source for researching urban legends, folklore, myths, rumors, and misinformation.
Very close cos 0.904 - 18
Pantip - Learn, Share & Fun
ร่วมพูดคุยแลกเปลี่ยนความคิดเห็นในทุกประเด็น ทั้งบันเทิง หุ้น ความงาม ท่องเที่ยว รถยนต์ กีฬา โทรศัพท์มือถือ อาหาร การเมือง ครอบครัว บ้าน วิทยาศาสตร์ สุขภาพ ธุรกิจ
Very close cos 0.905 - 19
Healthline: Medical information and health advice you can trust.
We're committed to being your source for expert health guidance. Come to us in your pursuit of wellness.
Very close cos 0.906 - 20
Mental Floss - History, Trivia, Interesting Facts, and More
Learn weird, interesting facts about history, entertainment, language, geography, and more topics. Test your knowledge with our quizzes and other trivia.
Very close cos 0.903
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to answers.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Answers uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Answers is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Marketing automation
- Mailchimp TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.3.27.46/32 ip4:35.153.236.167/32 ip4:34.238.173.22/32 i…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=f0acdf9481accfa2d120ec398d90fc2ed3750aea55b444848…
- Monitoring
- New Relic page source: NREUM
- CDN
- Fastly header x-served-by: cache-ber1080031-BER
- Web servers
- Apache HTTP Server header server: Apache/2.4.69 (Ubuntu)
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Amazon SES TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.3.27.46/32 ip4:35.153.236.167/32 ip4:34.238.173.22/32 i…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 ip4:52.3.27.46/32 ip4:35.153.236.167/32 ip4:34.238.173.22/32 i…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-267.awsdns-33.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=77489a18-0bb7-4495-bbb2-6e3764aa640e
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=tjduaq78QY9IlWndQ_3AzlvKuTVid3FIhdQB3b…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=cTXmFC6ATz4Ta_Y_QZ609s3_Kw-sKYwGZg6x7BCxYnw
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=3b7gxs3q1ej5cmz63cy411qolqx98b
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: c000784e90956a28
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Answers adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Cloudflare · not on answers.com 11/20
- DocuSign 11/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on answers.com 10/20
- Apple Business · not on answers.com 10/20
- OneTrust 10/20
- Atlassian · not on answers.com 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on answers.com 8/20
- Zendesk · not on answers.com 7/20
- OpenAI · not on answers.com 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Salesforce · not on answers.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on answers.com 5/20
- GlobalSign 4/20