“ Real people Real Answers “
Its become so much important that unless and until you don’t have real human touch you can’t satisfy a user. Webhelp.com was one my clients and they believed in giving real time answer with real touch somewhere they lost the approach because they started charging money for the searches.
Now a day’s people ½ the part of their day are on the net doing something or the other. Internet has become so important that in real life also when we can’t find something, we sometimes wish that we could have a search engine, which will provide me the information or solve my problems. Today anything I can’t find on the Internet I would try some search engine and would try to get the information. Whether google or altavista or copernic.
Though again searching on the web is an art. You need to give proper keywords to get appropriate results. Some times it so frustrating that simple searches are difficult to get.
Some tips for searching on the web are:
(NOTE: THIS EXAMPLE BEST WORKS ON COPERNIC 2000plus)
For e.g this is your query. I am a Student looking for Universities in US in the field of Economics and also needs financial aids.
Now how will you go about searching the web?
Prioritise your search
Then pick important key words
From the above examples, the keyword can be based on priority
University USA Economics Financial aid.
Okay without drifting away from the topic of review.
About.com
When I first visited this website, I thought it to be another search engine. But I was surprised, now doubt it’s a search engine but its something different. How different lets see.
About.com is an Internet site were real people help you in getting the information. Each and every website on this website is managed by Guides who are trained by About.com. Anyone can be an expert on this website but you have to undergo some procedures through which you are scanned and then you have undergo 15days training. I don’t know whether this open for people outside US.
A professional Guide who is carefully screened and trained by about runs each site at about. Guides build a comprehensive environment around each of their specific topics, including the best new content, relevant links, How-To’s, Forums, and answers to just about any question.
The About.com consists of over 700 Guide sites neatly organized into 36 channels. The sites cover more than 50, 000 subjects with over 1 million links to the best resources on the Net and the fastest-growing archive of high quality original content. Topics range from pregnancy to cars, palm pilots to painting, weight loss to video game strategies. The best part, which I prefer is Literature content anything from, quotes, phrases, poems etc. They have huge content and knowledge base as far as English Literature is concerned.
Who is an About Guide
Coming from all different backgrounds and from all over the world, About Guides know their subjects as well as anyone. They gather the information from hundreds of thousands of pages of content that they share with the users. They provide different services like discussions, moderating chats or writing articles.
Partners
They have partnered with different service provider like:
Ubid.com for Auctions
Jobdirect.com for recruitments
Ebix.com for Insurance
They have some loads of games on their site for game freaks. They have got tons of jokes on their jokes section; you can also submit your jokes.
Best Part
The best part of this website is all the information is properly indexed hence you don’t get lost while navigating this website. The load time of this website is pretty good. The design looks a copy of yahoo but its not good to compare it with yahoo because it provides similar services but giving real touch. At least they are trying to be different.
Other Contents
Its has some very good content. For e.g if you are looking for the sample appointment letter of a job then try its search and you will get absolute accurate information. It’s a search engine with a difference because the result you get are very much too the point. As I said earlier, its got fantastic knowledge base on English literature. They have got some good online books and poems which you will love to read it. As guides manage these websites and they are being paid you wont find dead links. Imagine your frustration after wasting 10mins on a search and you get a dead link. So you can count on about for searches like this were in the possibility of dead link is absolutely zero.
I remember a company which was being launched by one of the person behind junglee.com, it was called purpleyogi.com and it was going to provide a search engine which is was categorised based on doctors, engineers, architect and their respective fields and you were to get a proper indexed information but it is still on the beta stage, probably may get launched soon. In fact it is much more than that. Search one such part of their complete system.
Getting back to about, even I was amazed with the computer and technology information.
For e.g If you go under the category Computer/Technology, there is a option for various sub sections, I clicked the c++ link and I was amazed to see the vast resources of articles and books. Once you click the c++ link you can see on the left hand side, you have again some 25 and more different options to look in c++. This must have a bit confused you so let me put in simple step wise so you will get an idea.
Step 1 – Computer Technology
Step 2 – Programming – C/C++
(The results after clicking c/c++)
Step 3 – result 1 Introduction to C Programming - Week 8
On the left hand side some options you can see are:
Advanced C
Advanced C++
Beginning C
Beginning C++
C++ Builder
C++ and Java
CGI
They also have aboutindia which has got comprehensive information better than any of the Indian websites.
Overall this one of the best site I have visited with its vast resource of information, I am sure most of you will be satisfied. So go ahead and get “ABOUT” to this vast resource of network.
Happy Surfing and Happy Searching !!!