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All About About.com
Susan Shepley
March 7, 2001
Many people find the Internet a hard place to find concise, well-researched, useful information. About.Com (http://www.about.com) is successfully changing that perception.
About.com is a large database of information that is collected and maintained by people like you and me, and has information on almost any subject you could ever think of, from rowing to home schooling to dinosaurs.
About.Com started in 1997 as the Mining Company, with the aim of integrating real people into their information network. Today seven hundred "guides"--people with interest, knowledge and enthusiasm for their chosen topic--host pages featuring discussions, information, links, articles, and guidance. These guides come from all different backgrounds, lifestyles, countries and beliefs. To standardize the site, they are all trained by About.com to offer quality services to the site visitors.
The sites cover more than 50,000 subjects and provide over one million links to the best resources on the Internet and include high quality original content, written by the About.com Guides.
This "Human Internet" is a great place to do research for school projects, to share interests with others, or just to read up on current events. About.Com is an easy page to use featuring a search option, a question of the day poll, and up-to-date resources.
Another benefit of this site is that it includes a lot of Canadian content, and also has a Canadian About.Com sister site.
But watch out! The drawback to About.com is that it has so much information that it is easy to get sidetracked from your original purpose!
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