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When folks here posted their blocklists, there were a few borderline sites that I noticed. About.com is the notable one that comes to mind.
by Duff 16y ago
When folks here posted their blocklists, there were a few borderline sites that I noticed. About.com is the notable one that comes to mind.
- gwern 16y agoOne of the surprises I encountered setting up my custom search engine* for anime/manga searches was that I couldn't simply toss about.com into the blacklist - because while they did mirror Wikipedia material, they also had hired or otherwise gotten a passel of legitimate manga & novel reviewers! * http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009114923999563836576:1eorkzz2gp4 http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=009114923999563836576:1eor...
- pnathan 16y agoabout.com's content has noticeably improved in the last year or two. I remember them being an absolutely scuzzy site, just no useful content at all. Lately that has definitely changed, and definitely for the better.