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Other Exits
 | Webshots
Beautiful photos for your desktop or screensaver, and you can customize
as your home page for news, weather, and such.
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| Yahoo!
PC World rated it best of the general-purpose Websites.
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| Google
While you can search the Web from Webshots, Yahoo, and a host of others,
Google often has an uncanny way of finding the what you're looking for with
the least fuss. You can even use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button to
let Google take a stab at the one site most likely to satisfy your
need.
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| Excite.com
Another portal that you can personalize to show news, weather, stocks, and
other items of interest to you. I like its opinion poll and the fact that it
refreshes automatically.
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One to Avoid:
Vote.com
This site had great promise as a place to register your opinions with the people who count: your
elected officials and others. Unfortunately, it has been hijacked by far-right soreheads.
I had in the past asked friends to visit this site in the hope that if more
progressive-minded people added their opinions the site might begin to reflect a
more balanced view. Indeed, since the site forwards opinions to legislatures it
would seem to make sense that we should continue to provide input that would at
least let congressmen know that there are sizable numbers of people with a
dissenting view.
After years of no improvement in this site I have to hope, however, that
public officials see it for what it is: just another Internet equivalent of
right-wing talk radio. In spite of the mixed and apparently neutral background
of the people who started the site, they apparently have succumbed to the
temptation to pander to their most loyal customer base. It is no longer merely
the voters who are biased; the questions themselves are obviously slanted to
make the soreheads salivate. Because potential advertisers look at the number of
accesses the site gets, I have concluded that I do not wish to be counted among
its supporters.
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