Reference.com Expands Content by Adding Columbia Encyclopedia to Search Capabilities

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Lexico Publishing Group, LLC, the publishers of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com, announced today that its Web site Reference.com now offers searchable content from Columbia Encyclopedia, a respected and authoritative encyclopedia.

"There is an increased demand for information on the Internet that is accurate and authoritative," said Brian Kariger, CEO of Lexico Publishing Group. "Columbia Encyclopedia provides thousands of articles written by respected authors in their field, which makes Columbia Encyclopedia an excellent addition to our collection of online reference works. We are very excited to be able to offer this new resource for our users."

Columbia Encyclopedia is now on-line at http://www.reference.com/ along with several other resources including Wikipedia, the popular free encyclopedia and Lexico's On This Day almanac of historical events.

About Lexico Publishing Group, LLC

Founded in 1995, Lexico Publishing Group, LLC is a leading provider of online reference services, including Dictionary.com, called "the best general English-language dictionary online" by Web Guide magazine; the dictionary.com Word of the Day Mailing List, a daily e-mail vocabulary lesson; Thesaurus.com, the award-winning online version of Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases; Reference.com, a general reference guide and almanac; and CleverKeys, free software that gives instant access to definitions and synonyms from Windows and Macintosh programs. Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com and Reference.com combined to serve more than 20 million unique visitors in January 2006. The Word of the Day Mailing List has more than 845,000 subscribers.