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Answer Underground

Social Education Company based in San Francisco, California, United States From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Answer Underground was a social education company based in San Francisco, California. It developed an app for teachers and students to find information via group Q&A.

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History

Answer Underground was founded in 2012[1] by Sallie Severns, a former executive at information company Answers.com.[2] Severns created the first prototype of the Answer Underground app in 2011, and it was released to open beta in May 2012.[3]

Service

Originally, the Answer Underground app was designed for mobile devices and was optimized for iOS. Users were authenticated through Facebook.[2]

The app focused on academic groups categorized by major subject areas. Members were able to post questions to academic groups. In 2013, a verification feature was added to identify experienced academics to differentiate credible responses.[3][4]

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