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...here's good news for the rest of us: San Francisco-based Topica.com has just launched a snappy site and is vowing to be the "Yahoo of e-mail lists," according to company founder Ariel Poler. You can search the site by keyword or topic, read blurbs about each one and subscribe to any of 30,000 lists...
Once you finally do get to the articles, it's easy to search for entries by keyword or browse by topic. I found myself going cross-eyed reading the lengthy essays on topics ranging from the history of Carnival to the brief life of American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, but switching to the largest font option was a big help...
...popular Web search engines, usually limited to esoteric keyword searches, are also of little assistance. Try the keyword search of "Seattle hotels" on Excite (http://www.excite.com/) and your top match will be a comprehensive description of a hotel-based closed-circuit television network. Fascinating, perhaps. Relevant, clearly not. And although more work with Excite is likely to obtain some better sources of information, doing such work is unlikely to be the best way to spend your time...
...matched by Jeeves to the template question of "What is the weather forecast for the city of Seattle, WA?" Selecting that template will then take you directly to the Seattle five-day weather forecast. So, within two clicks, you'll have the information you need. Say goodbye to arcane keyword searches and hours of unproductive Internet surfing...
Consider my experience with America's Doctor Online, which was launched last month on AOL. The service (keyword: amdoc) provides free access to a real-time electronic chat with one of about 40 M.D.s 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The brainchild of Dr. Scott Rifkin, an internist who practices in Owings Mills, Md., America's Doctor Online offers a small library of medical information. For more complete resources, check out the American Heart Association www.amhrt.org or the Mayo Clinic www.mayohealth.org...