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... especially when you consider that the New York Times owns about.com.

• AlisdairO 15y ago
  in fairness, I regularly find information that's actually useful to me on about.com. Not the highest quality site, but I certainly wouldn't rank it with the demand medias of this world.
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  • dpark 15y ago
    About.com's problem is that a lot if their articles are poor quality, meaning factually inaccurate in parts, and/or outdated. They're not generally spam, though. I'll take about.com over ehow's vacuous crap any day. How to install a sprinkler system. 1. Decide what kind of sprinkler you need for your yard. 2. Buy the sprinkler system. 3. Install the sprinkle system. 4. Test your new sprinklers. This kind of junk from ehow (and others) shows up all the time, very high in the results, when doing searches for home maintenance.
  • nhebb 15y ago
    In fairness, you are right. I've found a few helpful pages on about.com. (I've found a lot more unhelpful ones, though.) And even Demand Media has shining moments. Thanks to eHow, I was able to fix a jammed disposal last month.
• paganel 15y ago
  > New York Times owns about.com. Wait, what?! Fuck, I hate that website. I was once searching for something like "Chernobyl cancer statistics" or something similar and, sure enough, about.com was there in the top 10 for that search. And that was after update Panda. At this point I've started to give up, I'm just adding "wiki" in almost all of my searches, hoping that Wikipedia has something smart/accurate to say about the subject I'm interested in.