WASHINGTON (VOA) — The Internet continued to grow in 2004 at an exponential pace, with some estimates reporting more than 50 million websites now online — a gain of 10 million in just one year. Scattered throughout this increasingly crowded virtual community was a handful of standout new sites that added real value — and ease — to the online experience:
Jonathan Dube, managing producer for MSNBC.com and publisher of “>www.poynter.org — the website for the Poynter Institute, a school for journalists, future journalists and journalism teachers.
For the news-obsessed among us, he recommends “>www.lexisnexis.com/alacarte.
For consumer information, Jonathan Dube suggests “>www.soople.com, taps into Google’s most advanced features. “You can do mathematical calculations,” says Mr. Dube. “You can do language translations. You can look up definitions. You can use Google as a phone book. You can use Google to search by location, name or even phone number. So there is really a ton of things that most people are not aware of, and this site makes it really easy to use.”
The cyber journalist contrasts the new site with a basic Google search. “If you just enter something into the search engine Google, you are going to come up with a long list of websites related to your search term,” he says. “If you go to “>www.voanews.com/science/ourworld.
