[PW] What Happened to gethuman.com?

[Peter Zilahy Ingerman, PhD]

I just tried ... and had no difficulty clicking on the link to

http://gethuman.com/

and getting to the web page with a long list of how to reach a human being.

It begins to sound as though there may be a problem with your system, or your ISP?

Peter Ingerman


Charles Early wrote:

>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
>>>Library, Code 272                       (301) 286-0887, Fax (301)
>>>286-8218
>>>Goddard Space Flight Center             Charles.T.Early at nasa.gov
>>>Greenbelt, MD 20771                     Library Associates of Maryland,
>>>LLC
>>>*If you have a moment, please fill out our online customer satisfaction
>>>survey :
>>>http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/surveys/customer/customersatisfactionevalua
>>>tion.htm
>>>
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Project Wombat
>>>list at project-wombat.org
>>>http://www.project-wombat.org/
>>>_______________________________________________
>>>Project Wombat
>>>list at project-wombat.org
>>>http://www.project-wombat.org/
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>--
>>Even Hartmann Flood,  Senior Academic Librarian
>>Ilevollen 3e
>>N 7018 Trondheim, Norway.
>>Phone: +47 73 52 53 53/ +47 95 11 58 14
>>even.flood at gmail.com
>>http://home.broadpark.no/~evflood/
>>"Come, and take choice of all my library, and so  beguile thy sorrow."
>>                                (Shakespeare)
>>_______________________________________________
>>Project Wombat
>>list at project-wombat.org
>>http://www.project-wombat.org/
>>    
>>
>
>Charles Early
>Library, Code 272                       (301) 286-0887, Fax (301) 286-8218
>Goddard Space Flight Center             Charles.T.Early at nasa.gov
>Greenbelt, MD 20771                     Library Associates of Maryland, LLC
>*If you have a moment, please fill out our online customer satisfaction 
>survey :
>http://library.gsfc.nasa.gov/surveys/customer/customersatisfactionevaluation.htm
>
>_______________________________________________
>Project Wombat
>list at project-wombat.org
>http://www.project-wombat.org/
>
>
>
>  
>