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As a single live-alone late 20s male, I do not understand this position. eHow's content often seems perfectly tailored to people like me (I suck at cooking, car

As a single live-alone late 20s male, I do not understand this position. eHow's content often seems perfectly tailored to people like me (I suck at cooking, carpet stain removal, calcium buildup removal, ..., all questions I've found perfectly satisfactory answers to via eHow). In the meantime I'm deeply disappointed to see that the collateral damage of a change largely driven by a problem I don't understand includes faqs.org losing most of its ranking.

vaksel 16y ago
my problem with eHow is that it's very common to search for: "how to do X" And get Google results with eHow as #1 with title: "How to do X" And when you click it, you get..."you can't do X" When in reality you actually can do X...all you have to do is hit #2 result for a forum to find out how. Granted these were usually automotive questions...but still...the fact that eHow outranks legitimate sources with BS 1 paragraph of wordy text should qualify for penalizing them in the rankings.
jeffreyrusso 16y ago
I half agree with you. I think everyone loves to hate eHow, but it has its place in answering seemingly common sense questions. For queries like the ones you mentioned, I'd say that Demand Media's usual line about "filling in the gaps" on the web is somewhat true. My qualm is that eHow often outranks much better content in places where their basic step by step articles don't deserve to be ranked. This is an example I've cited before... the two eHow articles with highly relevant titles don't deserve a spot above the state department's great resource that I see as #3. (Unfortunately, the state.gov site has a crummy title tag that isn't doing it much good.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=how+to+renew+an+expired+passport&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS382US382&ie=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=how+to+renew+an+expir...
DevX101 16y ago
eHow has taught me how to tie a tie more than once.
- forgotusername 16y ago
  Ha. :) It's taught me how to cook a burger at least twice.

vaksel 16y ago

my problem with eHow is that it's very common to search for: "how to do X" And get Google results with eHow as #1 with title: "How to do X" And when you click it, you get..."you can't do X" When in reality you actually can do X...all you have to do is hit #2 result for a forum to find out how. Granted these were usually automotive questions...but still...the fact that eHow outranks legitimate sources with BS 1 paragraph of wordy text should qualify for penalizing them in the rankings.

jeffreyrusso 16y ago

I half agree with you. I think everyone loves to hate eHow, but it has its place in answering seemingly common sense questions. For queries like the ones you mentioned, I'd say that Demand Media's usual line about "filling in the gaps" on the web is somewhat true. My qualm is that eHow often outranks much better content in places where their basic step by step articles don't deserve to be ranked. This is an example I've cited before... the two eHow articles with highly relevant titles don't deserve a spot above the state department's great resource that I see as #3. (Unfortunately, the state.gov site has a crummy title tag that isn't doing it much good.) http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=how+to+renew+an+expired+passport&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGLL_enUS382US382&ie=UTF-8 http://www.google.com/search?hl=&q=how+to+renew+an+expir...

DevX101 16y ago

eHow has taught me how to tie a tie more than once.

forgotusername 16y ago
Ha. :) It's taught me how to cook a burger at least twice.