Andem - 5:03 pm on Aug 27, 2012 (gmt 0)

+1 martinibuster.

About.com definitely is far more reliable than the likes of Wikipedia and its gang of self-righteous power editors. I don't think it's fair to compare About.com to eHow, either.

On the whole, though, I wouldn't really consider everything they publish to be authoritative though some editors really do put a huge amount of work into what they write.