General Info

Each month, more than 20 million people visit About.com. The company s online guide offers advice and solutions from home repair and decorating ideas to recipes, movie trailers or car-buying tips. Articles on About.com are prepared by a network of more than 457 guides. The site s guides have written books, appeared on national television and have won awards in their fields. About guides are selected for their ability to provide the most interesting information for users, for their passion for their subject and their passion for the Internet. About.com s Headaches Guide was recently recognized as a top patient advocate by the National Headache Foundation. According to Nielsen NetRatings, About.com is one of the top 15 Web properties, used by one out of every five people on the Internet. Scott Kurnit and a group of entrepreneurs founded About.Com in 1997. In 2001, the company was acquired by PRIMEDIA and by 2005 About was purchased by The New York Times Company.