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 | | WhatIs.com is the fastest source of information about computers and the Internet on the Web. With over 5,000 individual encyclopedic topics and 12,000 hypertext links, WhatIs.com is also a constantly growing and evolving way to explore the language of cyberspace and master the unfamiliar. Launched in 1996 with ease- and speed-of-use in mind, WhatIs.com has been featured in Wired, Information Week, Entrepreneur, and many other publications. PC Magazine, POV, and The Web voted it among the top 100 Web sites in the world. It continues to be among the highest-rated sites on the user-rated Web 100. WhatIs.com gives users the power to search, explore word lists, follow learning paths, read book reviews, take an illustrated tour of the Internet, and use a growing number of fast references. WhatIs.com is one of a family of sites owned by TechTarget, whose other sites include Search400.com, SearchDomino.com, SearchStorage.com, and SearchWinIT.com. | |
| | | | | Who Uses WhatIs.com
As of June 1, 2000, we have an average of 75,000 user sessions on WhatIs.com each business day. The site serves over 1,000,000 unique visitors each month, and shows over 6 million monthly ad views. | | How is WhatIs.com Used?
89% of users who have taken our survey have our site bookmarked and over 50% say they have made WhatIs.com their home page. 24% of the survey takers visit WhatIs.com once a day and 51% at least once a week. The average user session duration is over 7 and a half minutes. Although we do get a significant number of users discovering our site by searching the major search engines, we find that the large majority of our current users come to our site directly. Many of our users contribute comments and suggestions. We've received comments from users in more than 60 countries. | | Other Opinions
(Also see our Awards page.) In July, 1999, the editors of PC Magazine included us once again in their Top 100 Web Sites (one of Five Top Computing Sites). Recently, we've been favorably reviewed or featured by the ABA Journal, the Washington Times, the Telstra Big Pond Web site (Sydney, Australia), and Welcome Home to the Web (Toronto, Canada). In March, WhatIs.com creator Lowell Thing was interviewed on Investors On-Line, a television program broadcast in Canada. Home, Inc. Technology, The Web, P.O.V., and Wired Magazine have written about us in recent issues. We're listed on the user-rated "Web 100." We were an Information Week "Web Site of the Week, a "Site of the Day" on the Microsoft Network in the UK, a "Too Kool Site of the Day," and are a favorite Web site of the Internet broadcast, Net Talk Live! We've been mentioned or reviewed in Internet World (UK edition), Personal Computer (Australia), Chiropractic World (US), the Kansas City Star-Times, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. | |
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