[PW] What Happened to gethuman.com?

[Charles Early]

Even, I'm still getting redirected to http://www.kayak.com/.

At 12:23 PM 9/11/2007, you wrote:
>And to ad to this, I find http://gethuman.com/ is up and running. And
>different from the other two mentioned, BTW. Charles, give it another
>try, maybe it was a glitch.
>
>Even
>
>On 9/11/07, Frear, Ruth <Ruth.Frear at wolterskluwer.com> wrote:
> > Try www.gethuman.org
> >
> > (It seems to want the www)
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org
> > [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
> > Charles Early
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 8:36 AM
> > To: list at project-wombat.org
> > Subject: [PW] What Happened to gethuman.com?
> >
> > Some time ago I learned about the useful site http://gethuman.com/.  As
> > described in Librarians' Internet Index (2007-02-15):
> >
> >  >>
> > This website features a list of consumer service telephone numbers and
> > tips
> > for how to get to speak to a person. The  company lists also include a
> > letter grade and are browsable by category, such as automotive, credit,
> > finance, insurance, products, and travel. The site includes a
> > description
> > of how grades are assigned, a blog, and discussion forums. From a
> > consumer
> > advocate and other volunteers.
> > <<
> >
> > When I tried to visit gethuman a few minutes ago I was redirected to
> > http://www.kayak.com/, a travel search engine.  At the moment Google
> > still
> > has a cached copy of the site retrieved on September 7.  Gethuman and
> > Kayak
> > were both founded by the same person
> > (http://www.behance.com/Featured/Articles/Paul-English-Getting-Human/552
> > 4),
> > but I don't see any explanation for gethuman's disappearance on the
> > Kayak
> > site.
> >
> > This seems odd. Has anybody heard any rumors?
> >
> >
> > Charles Early
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