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1.The Top Portal
Yahoo!
Your one-stop online destination for free
stuff. An outstanding search engine (especially for "official"
websites), it also provides a range of free services: free email, maps,
Yellow Pages, games, shopping, news, finance, sports, live chat -- the
list just goes on and on and on!
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3. Best Shopping Site
Amazon.com
Amazon is nothing less than a revolution in
how the world shops. It is a huge step forward in the achievement of an
ideal competitive market. It is user-friendly, vast, and reliable. |
5. Top Auction Site
EBay.com
Ebay is the world's biggest, auction
house. Buy, sell, browse, bid, and be amazed at the huge range of items you find at this
wonderful site!
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7. Best Collaborative
Site
Wikipedia.org
One of the most remarkable online
encyclopedias on the Web! All the content is free, in the public domain,
and quotable. Wikipedia is maintained by an army of volunteers. Even so,
its content remains of very high quality. You might be
surprised how often Wikipedia will come to your rescue!
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Here you will find (free of charge)
Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Almanacs, Atlases, and an assortment of
other helpful resources.
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11. Top Networking Site
MySpace.com
Can we possibly compile a list of Web
sites without including MySpace? We tried to, but its skyrocketing
traffic and the fact that it now has more than 100 million profiles
indicate that it belongs on a list of the Web's elite sites. Go online
and find out what your kids are talking about and staring at all day. |
13. Popular destination for users of Microsoft stuff
Microsoft.com
One of the most popular destinations on
the web. The site for all things Microsoft.
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Popular Site for all things American
AOL.com
A popular web portal. News, search,
directory, music, videos and lots of other stuff.
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17. Streaming Media
Real.com
One of the most popular
media players, get realplayer for a whole lot of streaming video and
audio. You won't be disappointed.
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19.
Cable News Network
CNN.com
CNN For fast-breaking news and
responsible journalism, it's hard to beat CNN. And the text content at
this site is mostly free!
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2. Top Search
Engine
Google
The best tool on the Web for finding just
about anything (except possibly "official" websites). It is
blindingly
fast, sleek, streamlined, and as comprehensive as a search tool can be.
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4. Best
Knowledge Site
About.com
About.com breaks up the Web into major
subject areas with a volunteer human host for each of them. It helps you
sift out the wheat from the chaff on an enormous range of subjects. |
6. The Top Software
Site
Download.com
This massive collection
of shareware (try-before-you-buy) and freeware (totally free software)
is fully searchable and sortable. Just download it NOW, install it, and try
it out!
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8. Most Popular News Site
BBC.com
The BBC has long been the standard for
international journalism. At this site, you can watch, listen, and read
live and recorded content from the BBC. But not only the news: be
sure to browse the History, Science, Society, and other categories to
find rich content of high quality. You could browse this site
for many weeks without exhausting its abundant resources! |
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Much of the greatest literature in
the history of humankind will be found in full text form (and free of
charge) at this amazing site. In addition, many useful reference tools
are here (also free!)
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12. Best E-Mail
Provider
GMail.com
No other e-mail in the world has so many
features and a huge storage space of almost 3 GB. |
14.
Popular Web Portal
MSN.com
Microsoft's barebone web portal. Lots of
things to do, if you don't get put off by the site's design!
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Get clear, printable maps, driving
directions, addresses of businesses, and much more. |
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Google Groups Formerly "DejaNews", Google
Groups is a glorious experiment in free speech! This oceanic database of
over 800 million "Usenet" messages since 1995 from people all over the globe
constitutes the largest bulletin board in the history of the world! It's
fully searchable, and you can post your own messages free of charge.
(Tip: don't use your primary email address in your posts! To avoid spam,
use a temporary email address.) |
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Monster has an impressive number of
listings, employers actually seem to receive the applications that are
sent to them, and the site also has great referrals for job fairs and
training events. Good thing, because it is still hard to make personal
contacts through Monster. |
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