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Best sites by Google

Interesting experiment: try searching for "www." on Google and it will give you the list of the sites Google thinks are the best.
A couple of things to note:
- It apparently thinks Yahoo is a better site than Google.
- Hotmail.com's result is titled "Sign-in Access Error".
- The only listing in the top 3 pages of results that is not to the root of a website is the link to download Acrobat Reader. (The reason for that being those zillions of download Acrobat Reader links and buttons all over the web where there are PDF files to read.)
- The results also confirm that the internet and e-business is running totally independently from any dot-com boom or stock market trend or whatever. It's about building a company that people find good enough to use/buy from. Why am I saying this? Look at the top 30 and you won't find *any* company other than Google that wasn't around since about 1995-96.

Here's the top 50 list in the same order as on Google as of today (it will be interesting to check regularly to see if there are any changes...):
Yahoo, Google, Excite, Microsoft, Amazon, Altavista, Adobe, CNN, Lycos, Mapquest, Infoseek, W3C, Real Networks, Netscape, New York Times, Acrobat Reader Download, Hotmail, IBM, Netscape (again, different root server), Webcrawler, HP, Macromedia, USA Today, Apple, Winzip, Washington Post, Tucows, IMDB, Metacrawler, Barnes and Noble, Northern Light, Symantec, Sun, Dogpile, ZDNet, Google Press Centre, Apache, Monster, eBay, Intel, GNU, Shareware.com, Weather.com, Cancer.org, Britannica, Winamp, World Bank, American Red Cross, MP3.com, Alltheweb

{ idea from a link by Tommi on linkpool }