Web Crawling: Sites for Sore Eyes

Electronic News, June 12, 2000

www.spamkiller.com

For those who have no need for unsolicited credit cards, insurance policies, psychic readings, or get-rich-now-with-minimal-effort-and-a-small-fee offers, SpamKiller offers to clean up your e-mail. The site boasts, aWhether you simply want to eliminate spam as quickly and easily as possible or the power to fight back, SpamKiller is the tool of choice. No other solution is as feature-rich, yet easy to set up and use. Of course, you can continue spending a lot of time reading and deleting those unwanted messages.a?

www.ureach.com

The site essentially allows you to have all communications, all the time. If you need to get e-mail on your phone or voicemail on the Web, so be it. This service gives users access to calls, e-mail, voicemail and faxes. uReach fields the communications, which you receive via phone, a wireless Web-enabled device, or your usual Web access.

www.trafficstation.com

While the site claims that agetting there just got easier,a? in fact, it just makes drivers more informed. The site offers personalized traffic, transportation and traveler information via the Internet and mobile communications devices for 27 metropolitan markets. It canat get cars moving any faster, but users can use the Personal Traffic Advisor to get customized traffic reports via telephones, pagers, cell phones and PDAs.

www.selectsmart.com

Trouble making up your mind? If the aeeny-meeny-miney-moa? method doesnat work, Smart selector talks you through the decision-making process. The site offers decision-making help in a host of areas, from picking the presidential candidate to picking a pet, a college, a job, movie rentals, drill bits, a place to live and lawn grass. After picking a topic (and that one you have to decide on your own) users are given a quiz that also asks the weight you place on a given answer, then calculates the decision for you. The site describes itself as athe place for unbiased decision-making information based upon your preferences. Use these selectors to sort through long lists of options using your opinions and choices as the criteria.a?