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About.com

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About.com

Summary

About.com is a website[1]. About.com ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (452 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • About.com is in the country of United States[3].
  • About.com's instance of is recorded as website[4].
  • About.com's instance of is recorded as media company[5].
  • About.com's founder is recorded as Scott Kurnit[6].
  • About.com is owned by IAC[7].
  • About.com's industry is recorded as mass media[8].
  • About.com's industry is recorded as publishing[9].
  • April 21, 1997 marks the founding of About.com[10].
  • About.com's has edition or translation is recorded as All About[11].
  • About.com's replaced by is recorded as Dotdash[12].
  • About.com's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+3916'}[13].
  • About.com's Alexa rank is recorded as {'amount': '+2443'}[14].

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Founding

About.com's founder is recorded as Scott Kurnit[6]. April 21, 1997 marks the founding of About.com[10].

Industry

Industries include mass media[8] and publishing[9].

Ownership

About.com is owned by IAC[7].

Why It Matters

About.com ranks in the top 2% of website entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (452 views/month).[2] About.com has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[15] About.com is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[16]

Related Entities

mass media United States website

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . techcrunch.com. Retrieved . techcrunch.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . Alexa Internet. Retrieved . alexa.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 14d ago · KnowHarb0r · 2026-08-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Quora topic id → About-com
    Crunchbase organization id → —
    Alexa rank → {'amount': '+3916'}, {'amount': '+2443'}
    Freebase id → /m/09lpm
    + 43 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ [[Property:P1366]]: [[Q124250582]]"
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