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  • GalacticRerun, on 03/30/2008, -6/+38Google eh?
    • Hyperinsane, on 03/30/2008, -11/+6Google is the gateway to the entire internet, fool. Without it, you would spends hours upon hours trawling through the web looking for stuff.. AND YOU HAVE THE AUDACITY TO QUESTION THE USEFULNESS OF GOOGLE , WITH YOUR APATHETIC 'eh'! You, sir, are an ignoramus. How you received 6 diggs for your comment is a question even the almighty google would fail to answer
      • sirbeta, on 03/30/2008, -2/+4I think the issue is google is a given, so obvious that it doesn't even need mention. Especially at the top of the list.
        • YoctoYotta, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2I don't understand your logic. Regardless of whether Google should be #1, what worth is a list if the author is omitting valid entries based on his assumptions about what a share of READERS assume should be assumed? That's ***** ridiculous expectation to have.

          What's your #1 pick for most useful site? Based on your comment that Google is so obvious it should be ommitted, I'll guess Google.
      • Cenobia, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Technically, without Google I'd be using a different search engine...
    • NeoNightmareX, on 03/30/2008, -3/+2Surely this must be a misspelling. I believe you mean Goggle.
    • martalli, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1I have to agree in a sense. Mentioning google is almost like adding "the roadways" into places to go out on Friday night...although I can certainly see some wrinkles in my own comment.
    • keyo, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2no last.fm !
  • TomPlansMedia, on 03/30/2008, -16/+3***** crazy brits
  • IAmTheGuy, on 03/30/2008, -7/+107There is a disturbing lack of porn on that list.
    • ricky125, on 03/30/2008, -13/+4funniest thing on digg today.
      • spinaltap87, on 03/30/2008, -3/+10and you just wrote the least funny comment on digg today - CONGRATULATIONS!
  • justin82592, on 03/30/2008, -28/+2they forgot digg!
    i think
    • staffell, on 03/30/2008, -1/+30No 40.

      Did you even bother looking at the list?
    • soltys, on 03/30/2008, -6/+2no, they don't
    • tech42er, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1FTFA, which you didn't read:

      40 Digg
      www.digg.com

      The people's approach to news and features, Digg brings together items from across the net, ranked according to how many people have felt them worth recommending. Sometimes a little techie-heavy, but excellent for discovering what the cyberworld is getting worked up about.
  • v-man, on 03/30/2008, -16/+3buried for misleading.
    where are the porn sites?
  • mrogi, on 03/30/2008, -6/+2Useful info
  • romistrub, on 03/30/2008, -8/+13Digg says there are 5 comments, and I see 3. I'm not bitching about a conspiracy, but maybe this is a bug that should be addressed?
    • DiggerUpper, on 03/30/2008, -1/+10The replies count as comments too.
    • AaronStatic, on 03/30/2008, -2/+8you fail at the internets
    • romistrub, on 03/31/2008, -3/+4I'm well aware that the replies count as comments.
    • ataylor32, on 04/01/2008, -0/+1There is a two-minute window of editing time for comments. Maybe during that time they aren't shown, but are still counted in the total
  • sovereign3, on 03/30/2008, -4/+14Digg is in at no. 40.
    • noahsawyer, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7Yeah and Wikipedia is at #43.
    • colonelxc, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4Digg? Useful? If you count wasting time as being useful...
    • svivian, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2It's not a "top 100". They're grouped by category but not ordered in any way...
  • yankeefan8755, on 03/30/2008, -12/+2I see no pr0n=(
  • robotuprising, on 03/30/2008, -2/+15www.only2clicks.com sounded cool but they exceeded their bandwidth :(
    • doshindude, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I was actually quite interested in that one....
    • ryanharrington, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Like the domain says... Only 2 clicks, must have went down on number 3 .... lol what a waste of time to write this comment!!!
  • iXneonXi, on 03/30/2008, -4/+2I see no polka-dots.
  • v-man, on 03/30/2008, -8/+54and digg being at number 40 is outrageous. digg isnt useful, it just wasted about half my day, every day :(

    let the digg down begin..
    • rsmithrun, on 03/30/2008, -0/+10They are arranged by category, not from best to worst.
  • Enron1985, on 03/30/2008, -9/+3To be more specific, why is youporn.com not on that list?
  • SNIPE07, on 03/30/2008, -7/+11iLounge? How is an ipod support website the second most useful website?
    • rsmithrun, on 03/30/2008, -0/+10They are arranged by category, not from best to worst. And it is #3 anyway.
  • sovereign3, on 03/30/2008, -12/+15I hate to be the obnoxious American, but I wish the list were more Amerocentric. Lots of useful sites, but many of those are only useful if you reside in the UK.
    • Jo9100, on 03/30/2008, -1/+16At least now you get the idea about how it's annoying to read something specific to a country, that you can't use. I'm used to it, I'm canadian.
    • rumdrunk, on 03/30/2008, -11/+3Hey American! you don't own the internet you know, actually the web is a British invention, along with 40% of the worlds inventions, us Brits are great. Get off our interwebs
      • Devaney, on 03/30/2008, -5/+2yeah well it's digg.COM not digg.co.uk...and we've got rights to the computer, telegram, telephone, light bulb, etc.
        • Qxzkjp, on 03/30/2008, -2/+3Dugg down in honour of Alexander Graham-Bell and Joseph Swan.
          • Devaney, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1if you are going to bring up inventions that didn't work more than a few hours, wikipedia lists 22 incandescent bulbs prior to Swan's:
            "In addressing the question "Who invented the incandescent lamp?" historians Robert Friedel and Paul Israel [1] list 22 inventors of incandescent lamps prior to Swan and Edison. They conclude that Edison's version was able to outstrip the others because of a combination of factors: an effective incandescent material, a higher vacuum than others were able to achieve and a high resistance lamp that made power distribution from a centralized source economically viable."
            Regarding the phone, Edison was awarded the patent over Bell, Gray, and numerous other people because they were using Edison's transmitter w/their own receivers.
    • furto, on 03/30/2008, -1/+4Try being a regular digg user from Australia!! All these delicious iphone stories and the like..
    • bat-21, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Try wading through a Japanese electronics website. All those pretty pictures and no clue what they're saying.
  • lukemandese, on 03/30/2008, -10/+4Enough about the porn sites you ***** pervs...
  • luskin, on 03/30/2008, -1/+6http://www.onelook.com/ is great for cheating on crosswords.
  • wiseasgandalf, on 03/30/2008, -1/+3A great list that covers a broad range of truly useful sites.
    • verevi, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Not a great list since they left out the indispensable www.zombo.com. Shame on them!

      You can do anything at all at Zombo.com
  • sicoflife, on 03/30/2008, -0/+7I can't believe they have anonymouse.org in the list. It launches popups everytime it loads a page... I hate it!!!
  • luskin, on 03/30/2008, -0/+18Craigslist.
  • onixxino, on 03/30/2008, -8/+5This is the lamest list ever, half of the website on top 20 I NEVER need. And wikipedia is 43? wtf?
  • ZoNeD, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1flipbook.com you gotta be joshing me.
  • Duncster, on 03/30/2008, -5/+2I would have thought Wikipedia would have made it higher up on that list.
    • Rettocs, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1RTFC. It is not in order of how useful it is, it is organized into categories.
  • yoshitomi, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4I don't like the harsh undertones in wikipedia's synopsis.
    wikipedia saved my life, man, leave it alone.
  • ferkranus, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2Isn't usefulness all relevant?
  • ZoNeD, on 03/30/2008, -3/+1del.icio.us isnt even on there but you can post it to your account lol.
  • slightlygifted, on 03/30/2008, -0/+4as long as runescape did not make the list then the human race is safe.
  • Ploosheeta, on 03/30/2008, -5/+140 Digg
    www.digg.com

    The people's approach to news and features, Digg brings together items from across the net, ranked according to how many people have felt them worth recommending. Sometimes a little techie-heavy, but excellent for discovering what the cyberworld is getting worked up about.
  • whatthefu, on 03/30/2008, -1/+14"Sometimes a little techie-heavy, but excellent for discovering what the cyberworld is getting worked up about." Ron Paul, Barack Obama, Apple, Nintendo, tasers, anti-Microsoft, anti-Bush, cats. There, I saved you plenty of time.
  • slovencek, on 03/30/2008, -4/+0They forgot my web page :)
  • PHiZ187, on 03/30/2008, -2/+44 21 CricInfo
    www.cricinfo.com
    Everything you want to know about the world of cricket.

    "404 Page Not Found"

    Holy crap, they're right.
  • spinaltap87, on 03/30/2008, -2/+1They should add the International Cannagraphic forums to that list, but of course since its another ***** corporate list, nothing about forums or their usefullness in learning to properly do or create complicated things makes the cut
    http://www.icmag.com/ic/forumdisplay.php?f=9
  • allemande, on 03/30/2008, -5/+2On the 3rd page, anyone find that picture of the group of girls at a table with the text "Good old days: who needs the pub when you can socialise online?" , a bit disturbing?

    By the way, "socialise" is spelled wrong.
    • Jennefah, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2How would you spell "socialise" then? That's how it's spelled in my dictionary... along with every other British dictionary owned by all the British people visiting that British news website.
      • allemande, on 03/31/2008, -2/+1Then i guess the Merriam-Webster is wrong?
        http://mw1.m-w.com/dictionary/socialize
        • Jennefah, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Did I miss the word "British" out of my post?
      • allemande, on 03/31/2008, -0/+3Actually, both are correct ways to spell it. "Socialize", and "socialise" are both acceptable, it is just that in the UK it is more often spelled as "socialise".
        http://dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=753 ...
        • Jennefah, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1After checking, you're right... although I'm sure I got into trouble for using "socialize" rather than "socialise" in school (the same with "realize", rather than "realise"). Maybe they've relaxed the rules to allow for American spellings these days.
          My point about it being a UK newspaper still stands!
    • WomensUnderwear, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2you yank c***
  • slickcorp, on 03/30/2008, -6/+0Alternative Business Solutions Located In Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands Are a team of professional web designers and graphic designers. They offer great competitive prices and well as great customer support
    visit them at www.alternativebusinesssolutions.biz
    • doublejay1973, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1sure, we'd all like to work in a sunny tax haven.....buried for schpam
  • ashura001, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Awesome list. I had no idea about lulu.com. It's about to come in handy in a few days.
  • DigitalDaiquiri, on 03/30/2008, -4/+2Does about.com really belong on this list? Really?!
    • megapeg, on 03/30/2008, -0/+2For normal people, it's a pretty useful website. More reliable (read: secure) than Wikipedia, certainly.
  • kd1s, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1The Zoho site is interesting. It's got all the major functionality I'd need for a small business.
  • Riggs, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Good list for the most part. I didn't know about Technorati till now ... great site.
  • Brandonson112, on 03/30/2008, -2/+3Buried for inacuracy Digg should be in the top 10 not number 40
    • Rettocs, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2Buried for 2 counts of dumbassity: 1. Inaccuracy, with 2 c's. 2. If you RTFC, you will see that they are not ranked, they are just put into categories.
  • rustymyers, on 03/30/2008, -0/+1Nothing against the Brits, or the UK, but this list should have appropriate defining of the links so an Idiot like me doesn't have to figure out which ones will work in the US by having to click the damn link. Other than the loads of UK only sites, very nice list!
    • flashmat, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1As long as all lists generated by US-centric sites define things like Hulu as being US only ;-)
  • 2008recount, on 03/31/2008, -2/+2London Theatre Guide at 14? Digg at 40? That is sofa king wii tar dead.
    Too many movies and TV listings. These people sit on their fat behind a great deal.
  • thatguy2g, on 03/31/2008, -0/+4Woah... Never heard of http://www.WonderHowTo.com before. Pretty damn cool! Not sure if it belongs above digg though...
    • spykez, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1It's not ordered by the best but categorically.
  • angrybabymonkey, on 03/31/2008, -1/+2yeah, http://wonderhowto.com kicks ass. evidentially they are a bunch of television guys who got funding. above digg? how about it being above wikipedia. love that.
  • Cheeze_Head, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1A link of links but still beats them all combined:

    http://www.sunlightfoundation.com/resources
    • BryanTheCrow, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1Pretty cool... You should submit it to the political section...
  • aca01002, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2http://wonderhowto.com is def worth a look-- they beat wikipedia!?!?!?! they must be good
    --- i gotta quit wasting my time googling
  • ayeroxor, on 03/31/2008, -1/+1Any list of useful websites that doesn't list The Hun is full of *****. Free porn? That IS the web.
  • funchords, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1The 101 Most Redundant 101 Lists
  • remo2012, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1http://www.nerdsong.com/
    is all I need.
  • badboys213, on 03/31/2008, -0/+2What the hell is wrong with you people? THE LIST IS NOT IN A ***** ORDER! IT'S JUST NUMBERED SO PEOPLE WILL KNOW THERE ARE 101 WEBSITES IN THE ARTICLE!
    btw, flipclips.com has to be the coolest idea ever.
  • krango, on 03/31/2008, -0/+1I don't see a rick roll link there. Buried.
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