luminosity comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

126 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2011 03:17AM

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Comment author: luminosity 07 February 2011 09:18:26AM *  11 points [-]

I haven't come across any of them except eHow. eHow is awful. Useless. Bad. I have ended up there unwittingly from google searches a half dozen times or so. Not once has it answered what I wanted to know. The information on their site is optimised to be written as quickly as possible while getting the best google rank possible, with no thought as to quality of information.

Comment author: knb 07 February 2011 11:19:54PM 3 points [-]

Huh. I use eHow and WikiHow all the time, and always find it incredibly useful.

Comment author: bayleo 08 February 2011 09:26:26PM 6 points [-]

eHow is frequently accused of being a content mill. I switched search engines to DuckDuckGo when the founder announced he was dropping eHow and all other Demand Media properties from his results (Blekko has also dropped them). eHow articles are cranked out by paid writers who typically know very little about what they are writing, resulting in a lot of completely inadequate explanations. WikiHow, on the other hand, is a genuine wiki (go ahead; edit it) which rivals Wikipedia for process-oriented queries.

Comment author: David_Gerard 08 February 2011 10:32:30PM 1 point [-]

when the founder announced he was dropping eHow and all other Demand Media properties from his results

Sure hope he keeps Cracked. It's Wikipedia, rewritten with jokes!