Filed Pursuant to Rule 433
Registration Statement on Form S-3
(Registration No. 333-144630)
Answers Corporation Files Shelf Registration Statement
New York, NY, July 17, 2007— Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW), creator of Answers.com™,
announced today that it filed a universal shelf registration statement with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC). The registration statement covers up to an aggregate of $140,000,000 of
common stock, preferred stock, warrants, debt securities, units or any combination thereof.
Proceeds from the issuance and sale of securities by the Company are expected to be used to fund
the purchase price of the Company’s recently announced acquisition of Lexico Publishing Group, LLC
and for general working capital, as further described in the registration statement.
This announcement is neither an offer to sell nor a solicitation of an offer to buy any of these
securities and shall not constitute an offer, solicitation or sale in any jurisdiction in which
such offer, solicitation or sale is unlawful. Any offers, solicitation of offers to buy, or sales
of securities will only be made pursuant to the registration statement filed with and declared
effective by the SEC, including the prospectus and related prospectus supplement.
The registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may
orders to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective.
About Answers Corporation
Answers Corporation (NASDAQ: ANSW) operates the award-winning Answers.comTM information
portal, delivering comprehensive content on over four million topics spanning health, finance,
entertainment, business and more. Content includes over 180 licensed titles from leading publishers
such as Houghton Mifflin Riverdeep Group PLC, Barron’s, Encyclopedia Britannica, All Media Guide
and others; original articles written by Answers.com’s editorial team; community-contributed
articles from Wikipedia; and user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com’s industry-leading
WikiAnswersTM (wiki.answers.com). Founded in 1999 by CEO Bob Rosenschein, Answers.com
can be launched directly from within Internet Explorer 7, Firefox and Opera browsers, and its
service is integrated into sites like Amazon.com’s A9.com, The New York Public Libraries’
homeworkNYC.org, The New York Times, CBSNews.com and others. Answers.com is also available for
mobile devices at mobile.answers.com. For investment information, visit ir.answers.com. (answ-f).
This press release may constitute a “free writing prospectus” and an “issuer free writing
prospectus” as such terms are defined in Rule 405 and Rule 433, respectively, under the Securities
Act of 1933, as amended, and relates to the registration statement on Form S-3 filed by Answers
Corporation with the SEC on July 17, 2007.
Answers Corporation has filed a registration statement (including a prospectus) with the SEC for
the offering to which this communication relates. Before you invest, you should read the prospectus
in that registration statement and other documents Answers Corporation has filed with the SEC for
more complete information about Answers Corporation, and this offering. You may get these
documents for free by visiting EDGAR on the SEC Web site at www.sec.gov or the Investor Relations
section of Answers Corporation’s Web site at www.answers.com.
Cautionary Statement
Some of the statements included in this press release are forward-looking statements within the
meaning of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Such
statements may be indicated by such words as “may,” “will,” “expect,” “believe,” “plan,” or other
similar terminology, and include statements regarding the timing and certainty of closing the
reported transaction, strategic and financial benefits of the reported transaction, expectations
regarding accretion, integration and cost savings, and other financial guidance. Such statements
are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, and actual circumstances, events or results may
differ materially from those projected in such forward-looking statements. For those statements, we
claim the protection of the safe harbor for forward-looking statements contained in the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Important factors that could cause or contribute to
differences include, but are not limited to: our failure to apply our significantly higher
monetization rates to the Lexico traffic, our inability to obtain Google’s consent to amend our
Google Services Agreement to include the Lexico Web properties after the acquisition or the
transfer of Lexico’s Google Services Agreement after the acquisition, our inability to complete the
acquisition of Lexico as a result of not obtaining the financing for the acquisition or obtaining
all necessary approvals and consents; our inability to realize the intended benefits of the
acquisition of Lexico; the fact that the Lexico acquisition will result in a significant cost to us
and in certain instances we may be required to pay a termination fee to Lexico if the acquisition
is not completed; our inability to successfully integrate the operations of Lexico; our inability
to maintain or grow Lexico’s traffic; the effect on our business if the liabilities we assume in
the Lexico acquisition are greater than expected or if there are unknown liabilities; the potential
decline in the price of our common stock from the sale of equity securities in the market in order
to obtain financing for the acquisition; our inability to increase the number of persons who use
our products; our inability to increase the number of partners who will generate increased traffic
to our sites; our failure to improve the monetization of our products; a change in the algorithms
and methods used by Google, the provider of a substantial amount of our search engine traffic, and
other search engines, to identify Web pages towards which traffic will ultimately be directed or a
decision to otherwise restrict the flow of users visiting www.answers.com and our other Web
properties; a decision by Google, Inc., to discontinue directing user traffic to www.answers.com
through its definition link; the effects of facing liability for any content displayed on our Web
properties; potential claims that we are infringing the intellectual property rights of any third
party; and other factors discussed from time to time in our new releases, public statements and/or
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, especially the