Best of the Web 2006

What are your must-bookmark sites? We invited BusinessWeek.com readers to vote for their favorite sites and tools in 23 categories, organized into four groups: Information Overload, Money Matters, Not at Work, and Do-It-Yourself Web.

We also surveyed BusinessWeek.com and magazine staff. Here's a sampling of our favorites in cases where a site received multiple votes. For General News, we favor Google News, and when it comes to Tech News, several of us put CNET first. Money matters to us, too, apparently. In the Buying, Selling category, Craigslist snared the most votes; under Finance, we put Yahoo Finance at the top. As for entertainment, we go to the Web for that, too. Our favorite music site is iTunes, and when we want to catch a clip, YouTube is our tube.

Readers heeded the call in large numbers. We've tallied the results, removing duplicate votes from the same IP address. The tables rank the winning sites in each category, with the top vote-getter listed at the top and write-ins indicated with an asterisk.