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good bye about.com and ehow.com

I'm not sure why everyone on HN seems to be bagging on about.com. It's a legitimate website that pays authors to write content [1].

True, it's ugly and written at a 6th grade reading level, but it's sometimes useful. It's certainly not a spam site.

[1] - http://beaguide.about.com/

I agree — I used to hate About.com, but I've found some of the subsites have some decent articles. I've found some decent recipe ideas on the Greek Food subsite, for example.

I'll let them live. About.com actually have some pretty legit content.

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