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Ranking the Portals

Scores are from 1 (the worst) to 3 (the best). To see how we arrived at these scores, click here.

Portal BW Score Comments
Yahoo! 2.3 Just like all the others, except it works;
Excite 2.2 Great feel to the design; communities strategy will be a big hit
Netcenter 1.8 Personalization is the best; still needs to add a lot of features
MSN.com 1.5 Great individual sites that are wrapped together, but site has no personality as a whole
Lycos 1.4 No-frills site that has a lot of dead links and personalization that feels impersonal
Snap! 1.3 Good try so far, but needs email and chat before it’s a contender
AOL.com 1.3 Not much there yet but watch out if it transfers all its content onto the web
Infoseek 1.2 Hard to navigate for everything except searching; needs some creative help from Disney
Alta Vista 1.0 Best search engine of them all, but scanty in most other areas



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