About
www.about.com
About's human-created reference guides are one of our favorite places to begin researching topics.

America Online
www.aol.com
The place for beginners— and some people who ought to know better.

BBCi
www.bbc.co.uk
Worthy of classic status on the strength of its multimedia news coverage alone.

CDC
www.cdc.gov
Because anthrax isn't just for sheep anymore.

Dictionary.com
www.dictionary.com
Our favorite metadictionary.

Encyclopedia Britannica
www.britannica.com
The encyclopedia, online.

FedStats Home Page
www.fedstats.gov
If there's one thing the government actually produces, it's statistics; and if there's one place to find them, it's here.

FirstGov.gov
www.firstgov.gov
The official portal to Dubya's house, the Senate, The Hill, and more government bodies than you can shake a stick at, much as you might be tempted.

Google
www.google.com
Search par excellence.

Google Groups
http://groups.google.com
Searchable newsgroup archives and a great place to do your own technical troubleshooting.

iVillage
www.ivillage.com
Articles and forums—health, life, love, primping—for women.

The Library of Congress
www.loc.gov
An almost frightening amount of information.

MedScape
www.medscape.com
WebMD's site for medical professionals.

MSN
www.msn.com
You've got to start your surfing somewhere. Good for beginners.

MSN Learning & Research
http://encarta.msn.com
Smart surfing for students, parents, and quiz addicts.

NPR
www.npr.org
Streaming National Public Radio shows: news with that Berkshires slant, and, of course, Click & Clack.

Nolo Press
www.nolo.com
Legal mumbo-jumbo unmumbified.

Technology Review
www.technologyreview.com
MIT's well-organized publication on emerging technologies.

WebMD
www.webmd.com
A trove of symptoms, conditions, and drug info.

Webopedia
www.webopedia.com
Technology terms-opedia.

Yahoo!
www.yahoo.com
The portal from before portals even had a name.

Bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com
If only Mayor Mike had as firm a grasp on his city's finances as his eponymous site does on financial news!

Hoover's Online
www.hooversonline.com
Authoritative and compelling financial and business research.

Internal Revenue Service
www.irs.gov
What with the space alien cultists and their newfangled cloning, taxes may soon be the only sure thing.

The Motley Fool
www.fool.com
All about investing. Don't take the name personally.

MSN Money
http://moneycentral.msn.com
Got money? Want money? Obsess about your money here.

Quicken
www.quicken.com
Or here.

SmartMoney.com
www.smartmoney.com
If your money isn't working for you, it's working against you.

TheStreet.com
www.thestreet.com
Expert advice on repairing that shirt you nearly lost.

Broadbandreports.com
www.broadbandreports.com
Find the best—and worst—broadband connections in your area.

Earthweb.com
www.earthweb.com
A vast repository of IT literature.

ExtremeTech
www.extremetech.com
Here at PC Mag, these are the guys we consider geeks.

Gibson Research Corp.
www.grc.com
Serious information and applications to help the average Joe fight Web baddies.

Homestead
www.homestead.com
The leading site creation and hosting site.

Hotmail
www.hotmail.com
Webmail: still full of spam, still a convenience we don't want to live without.

Internet Traffic Report
www.internettrafficreport.com
Is your connection sick, or is the whole Internet slow today? Find out here.

Netcraft
www.netcraft.com
What really makes the Web tick?

PalmGear.com
www.palmgear.com
Expense-tracking apps, e-mail–reading apps, chess, and checkers.

PC Magazine
www.pcmag.com
At the risk of being immodest.

Slashdot
www.slashdot.org
Another great geek resource.

TechWeb
www.techweb.com
Like your tech news presented in business-ese?

Trend Micro
www.trendmicro.com
The straightest dope on online nasties—and a free virus scan.

Vindigo
www.vindigo.com
If you live in (or visit) a Vindigo-indexed city and have a PDA, go to this site.

WebEx
www.webex.com
Conference calls are so eighties. Host your meetings online.

WebMonkey
www.webmonkey.com
Shop talk by and for Web designers.

Yahoo! Groups
http://groups.yahoo.com
Simple, customizable, and free—a virtual intranet for everyone.

Dice
www.dice.com
Amazingly, people still want tech jobs.

HotJobs
http://hotjobs.yahoo.com
Jobs are hard to come by, but HotJobs makes it a little easier.

Monster
www.monster.com
Monster has thousands of jobs, plus résumé and interview tips, job advice, and more.