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CMPnet's NetGuide Identifies the 'NetGuide 99,' the Best and Worst of the Web
MANHASSET,N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 8, 1998--
Internet Guide Highlights 99 Sites in 22 Categories, Ranging from
the Serious to the Superfluous; CNN Named Best News Site, CondeNet Named the Year's Worst Site
What was there to like in a year when many sites got worse instead of better? Lots, according to CMPnet's NetGuide (http://www.netguide.com), the premier Internet navigation guide.
To close out 1998, NetGuide's team of writers, editors, producers, and designers have debated the merits (and flaws) of thousands of Web sites. The result is the NetGuide 99 (http://www.netguide.com/special/netguide99/home.html), the Web's best and worst 99 sites in 22 categories, ranging from the serious (Best News Site) to the superfluous (Best Guilty Pleasures Site).
"This year some sites tried to add too many bells and whistles while others 'dumbed down' the look of their sites in an attempt to appeal to users with browsers from 1994," said the report. "But some of the developments we liked were easier navigation, faster-loading pages, and more ambitious personal homepages."
Highlights from the NetGuide 99:
Best News Site: CNN (http://www.cnn.com) "Despite stiff competition from other news sites, CNN is still our favorite...."
Best Guilty Pleasures Site: Musings of the Gus/Randomly Ever After (http://www.spies.com/~gus/ran) "A Virginia slacker turned San Diego computer programmer, Gus is arrogant, obsessed with technology, dirty, usually drunk, and prone to rambling on and on about things like dead seals and the subtext of Jerry Springer video..."
Most Improved Site: AOL (the Online Service) "We'd never thought we'd be saying good things about AOL either -- but the new Version 4.0 is a real doozy..."
Best Site for a Start Page: Yahoo! (http://www.yahoo.com) "This ubiquitous portal has a lot of what you want -- and probably a lot of what you don't..."
Worst Site: CondeNet (http://www.condenet.com) "The website for Conde Nast's magazines, is god-awful..."
The complete NetGuide 99 list: Best chat site -- talkcity.com (Talk City) Best entertainment site -- mrshowbiz.com (Mr. Showbiz) Best guilty pleasures site
-- spies.com (Musings of the Gus) Best health site -- intelihealth.com (InteliHealth) Best humor site -- theonion.com (The Onion) Best kids site -- ajkids.com (Ask Jeeves for Kids) Best site for love -- match.com (Match.com) Best money site
-- rtq.thomsoninvest.net (Thomson Real-Time Quotes) Best use of multimedia -- hotwired.com (HotWired) Best news site -- cnn.com (CNN) Best shopping site -- amazon.com (Amazon.com) Best site design -- Bryan Wachs -- gap.com (Gap Online) Best site for a start page -- yahoo.com (Yahoo!) Best sports site -- sportsline.com (CBS SportsLine) Best technology site for consumers -- cnet.com (C/net) Best travel site -- leisureplanet.com (Leisure Planet) Most useful site -- thetrip.com (The Trip's Flight Tracking Utility) Best webzine -- salonmagazine.com (Salon) Best treatment of a boring topic
-- sexquotes.com (Sex Quotes) Most improved site -- America Online 4.0 (the service NOT the website) Most overrated site -- mtv.com (MTV) Worst site -- condenet.com (CondeNet)
CMPnet's NetGuide (http://www.netguide.com) is the only guide to doing more on the Internet. New sites, best sites, live events, Internet tips and tricks - NetGuide provides everything users need to know to get the most out of their online experience and stay on top of this constantly changing medium.
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