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And ExpertsExchage and About.com
by bradly 16y ago
And ExpertsExchage and About.com
- travisp 16y agoExpertsExchange is at least original content (as far as I know)
- jasonkester 16y agoExpertsExchange used to be nearly 100% scraped usenet. Then eventually a few poor souls stumbled in thinking it was an actual site and started posting questions there directly. Eventually people even started answering them. Had they not had such a terrible site design and revenue scheme, they might have actually made the transition from scraping bottom feeder to respectable site.
- moxiemk1 16y agoI never knew that. I always assumed that someone out there was paying for all these questions. Good to know.
- grok2 16y agoI notice that nowadays, I don't really care where the answers come from so long as they they answer my question. While I tend to look for and click on StackOverflow links and skip efreedom links (just because I want to be loyal to them), I find that I still use eHow and About.com and ExpertsExchange results since I find that the answers there most times help me with what I am seeking -- for me it doesn't matter really that it is the original source of the info or not. I think these sites are better than the true spammy sites that really have no content on the answer to your question, but somehow manage to get up there in the search results.
- CWuestefeld 16y agoI don't get the hating on About.com. There are sub-sites there that I actually read intentionally, e.g., http://heavymetal.about.com/ http://heavymetal.about.com/ This sure looks to me like real, original content. EDIT: how about the courtesy of an explanation for the downvote?
- j_baker 16y agoAbout.com's content is decent sometimes. The problem is finding it amongst all the ads.