Encyclopedia.com (also known as HighBeam Encyclopedia) is an online encyclopedia. It aggregates information from other published dictionaries, encyclopedias and reference works including pictures and videos. The website was launched by Infonautics in March 1998. Infonautics was acquired by Tucows in August 2001. In August 2002, Patrick Spain bought Encyclopedia.com and its sister website eLibrary from Tucows and incorporated them in a new company called Alacritude, LLC (a combination of Alacrity and Attitude). The business became known as Highbeam Research and was eventually sold to Gale. The website is currently operated by Chicago-based company Highbeam Research, a subsidiary of reference publisher Gale, which in itself is a subsidiary of Cengage. More information...
According to PR-model, encyclopedia.com is ranked 462nd in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 345th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before koreaherald.com and after de.wikipedia.org in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
