ARE YOU HAVING A HARD
TIME FINDING HOW-TO AND OTHER INFORMATION?
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If you Google "how to" -- you will get 979 million leads, while "how-to" (with a dash) gets you 1 billion, 10 million leads. That is obviously way too many to sort through. We love Google -- but there must be an easier way to find stuff. We are trying to help by putting all that information (those billion-plus leads) into a more easily digested form.
As you use this site, its pattern might not be readily apparent -- we will be seen as skipping around -- but bear with us: the pattern should become clear as we weave in more information. Remember, you are looking at a very small section of what will become the finished website. We realize it might seem it is impossible to cover everything on the internet in one simple website -- but we have what seems to us to be a reasonable plan. Come back and let us know how we are doing.
Read what Google has to say ( on 9/10/07 ), in part, at << http://www.dmoz.org/about.html >>. "The web continues to grow at staggering rates. Automated search engines are increasingly unable to turn up useful results to search queries. The small paid editorial staffs at commercial directory sites can't keep up with submissions, and the quality and comprehensiveness of their directories has suffered. Link rot is setting in and they can't keep pace with the growth of the Internet."
On top of that -- wannabe entrepreneurs are buying up abandoned website names and filling the sites with unrelated search information -- hoping to make a few cents each time a visitor clicks on an ad. In some cases, they put pornography on the sites in an effort to hook a few people who will pay for porn.
NOTE: Many sites we visit turn out to be junk-sites, filled with dead links and links to outside sites that promise way more than they deliver. Some sies are designed to prevent you from leaving the site -- you can't get off by clicking on a "previous" arrow -- they are not shown. The only way to get off the site is to close the window. While you click around trying to find an exit, that site is collecting a few cents for each click.
We evaluate every site we link to and only put up sites that seem legitimate. If you find us linking to junk sites -- please contact us immediately -- so we can scrap the link. RELATED EXAMPLE: If you search "making quilts" on Google, you get 2,200,000 leads. Most of them are junk-sites and are less than worthless, having lots of extraneous material and dead leads which will waste your time ( try it and see if you agree with us ). True quilters simply "know" Eleanor Burns, her company "Quilt in a Day", and her website through word-of-mouth and her television shows -- but neither "Eleanor Burns" or "Quilt in a Day" is among the first 150 leads from Google. This shows how difficult it is for a neophyte to find things by simply searching on the internet.
You need the type of help we are trying to give you on alphabeticalist.com, where we are trying to replace "search boxes" with alphabetical lists as the best way to find information on the internet.
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