About.com: You are my antichrist.
I hate this site. Not only does About.com NEVER have the information you’re looking for, they rank high enough on search engine’s to justify their existence. And that is ONLY because they’ve been around for so long. About.com has many, many reasons for me, you, your grandmother, or Barack to despise them. Here are a few.
- You can never find any real information. Typically you search for something, click whatever links looks the most appropriate, and get the information you were after. With About, you’ve entered a black hole you’re unlikely to escape from.
- Holy Pop-ups Batman?!? Really? About.com, do you genuinely think people are going to keep coming back if EVERY new page they open pops up a new POS ad?
- Even if you blindly stumble upon the information you’re after, it’s dated and unreliable. Perfect example:
I don’t know you Bill Lamb, and I don’t want to. Aside from the fact that I don’t give a crap about the Top 10 Prom Songs, I don’t trust your opinion of them. Even if this is a factual list, I don’t trust your research abilities. I don’t like your ass face either. You’re ugly, look stupid, and have no gauge of what today’s youth are after. Yet you’re in charge of pop music. Couldn’t About.com at least pretend to be trying and put some blond 20-something’s photo on the screen to keep people around for more than a quarter-second?
Aside from the fact that Billy has as much credibility as a cancerous yak, look at the advertising placement on this page. Not that you could miss it. Click ads make no sense anymore. I work for a small business, and conversions on these things are low and just getting lower.
About.com, you represent all that is evil and wrong on the web.
About.com is truly an internet abomination.
This article is fantastic, and really, says how i feel about the site without the use of expletives. And, here I thought it couldn’t be done . . .
Nice one.
James Caruso
Easily Amused, Inc.
DUDE!!!!1
No fucking joke. I was planning on writing about this. I hate About.com - it is the exact opposite of what the web should be. They force you to navigate through a bunch of shit in order to get the info you are really looking for.
Reminds me of your side bar.
Oh snap.