eHOW.com - Can it answer your questions?

http://www.ehow.com

The web site eHOW.com calls itself "the fast and easy way to find out how to do just about anything."

Questions:

1. Identify a question you have in each of two of the categories. Submit the question and look at the response. Based on this limited experience, to what extent does it appear that eHOW.com meets its goal of providing a "fast and easy way to find out how to do just about anything?"

2. How do you know that the answers provided are good answers?

3. Assume that a company develops a Web site that tries to answer typical questions related to the company, its products, and its operations. What would determine whether this site would be useful and successful?

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