How many web pages are there? I have no idea…let me give a try…A yahoo search for the letter a found – about 10, 300, 000, 000 pages!!! i.e. 10 billion pages at least!!! I cannot see all the web pages like I cannot live in all places in my life time. I think we can make best use of our time and money, which is preventing us from visiting all web pages by sharing information…here I wish to give few web sites I used to use where you may share the ones you use. This is somewhat basic type…so don’t expect much creativity in this review…
News-sites
When it comes to international news, BBC and CNN are my favorite sites http://www.bbc.com http://www.cnn.com http://www.yahoo.com
When it comes to my local news in UAE, my best bet is Gulfnews & Khaleejtimes (both are web sites of leading newspapers in UAE. These sites update everyday including classifides & appointments. http://www.gulfnews.com http://www.khaleejtimes.com
From News of India, Rediff is the first soruce, followed by other sites.
http://www.rediff.com http://www.thehindu.com http://www.indianexpress.com http://www.timesofindia.com
News from Kerala, my favorite sites are
http://www.malayalamanorama.com http://www.mathrubhumi.com http://www.keralanext.com
Sports
http://www.cricinfo.com is the only web site I check with reference to cricket where I don’t check much of other sports…sorry it is due to my lack of interest…
Beauty of this site (cricinfo) is that you get whatever wants to know about cricket from this site. All the international play scores are available with the individual records and other details. A must check for all cricket lovers.
Films
When it comes to Bollywood films, Indiafm is one site I used to check for basic statistics where I consider indiafm to bollywood is like Cricinfo to cricket. The movies, the cast & crew, previews, reviews, news, trailers, web sites, box office updates…it is a must check web site. These days, I am varying however to go to the site after they started loading video trailers in their web site, which is consuming a lot of download which I cannot afford
Now running.com is very useful when it comes to know the releasing pattern of the movies and how the theatres are responding to the films, though I used to directly check few of the theatre chains web sites to get the details. Another benefit of nowrunning.com and sify.com is that they give regional film details as well.
http://www.indafm.com http://www.nowrunning.com http://www.sify.com/movies/
Writing
When it comes to writing, Mouthshut is the only place I write as of now. The sad part is that now I am not getting patience to write anything with pen, which is very bad.
http://www.mouthshut.com
Weather
I am little eager to know about weather, its turnarounds etc. After I used to check these web sites, I used to wonder how our authorities are ignorant of the global weather changes. I didn’t know earlier that every day there are many earthquakes were happening…. but I know now.
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/quakes_big.php
Check the above link to know the details of major earthquakes happening in the world, which is above magnitude 5+ ! You can go to the other links to get further details.
https://bbc.co.uk/weather/world/
BBC weather predication is the best I have encountered so far. So check the above link to know the world weather. The beauty of the site is that it gives the pictures for the coming days as well. Click on the South Asia button to know the weather in the Indian Sub continent.
Browsers/Search Engines/platforms
I use either Internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox. I prefer Mozilla where I can block many of the pop ups effectively. However, if I upload a review in Mouthshut from Mozilla, the alignment will be much different and it looks so odd. So, I have to use internet explorer to make it correct. I downloaded mozilla from their web site for free.
http://www.mozilla.com
Whatever I want to know, Yahoo or google give many answers within split second. When they are happy they give it in millions!!! Whether it is pictures, videos, information, statistics…you ask, you will get it…
http://www.google.com http://www.yahoo.com http://www.excite.co.uk
I think our imagination to conduct a search and isolate the desired results can make a big difference. It saves a lot of time. For example, if you want to have a picture of a rose flower, what you will do? I used to go directly to https://yahoo.com, select the pictures option, type rose and I will have 6, 932, 536 pictures. Waw! i.e. good…but I want a rose flower of my interest. How I can get a white rose single flower picture? Let me type white rose and I reduced the number of pictures to 253, 337. If you want a green rose? Type green rose…You want a wall paper? Click the wall paper button…you want to move small pictures, there are options…but many times things are not that simple. You need to use clear imagination to extract the most correct information avoiding the unnecessary results. I am not underestimating your searching abilities, as I can see in your face that you asking me, hay hay…what are you talking…we are more advanced in internet browsing.
Yahoo messenger is the only chat I am using, that too not often.
http://www.en.wikipedia.org is one fine store of information too...
Now you simply type encyclopedia in yahoo search to find the whole set of encyclopedia…which I don’t use…Lol!!!
But wait…I can list a million web sites…which you can get from web search…so, what is the purpose of this write up? Just sharing few of the web sites I go through…
Why I am posting this? Because I would like to know the sites you go through. Without telling my interest, how I can ask for your taste and sites???
Now, it is your turn.