The purpose of BestSitesNow.com is to help you find the most popular sites (as in Best Sites) on specific topics
without having to spend too much time scouring the web (as in Now).
The idea for this site came when we (DreamDolphin Media) were building a different site on a specific topic. We wanted to make a links page for our visitors listing the best sites relating to that topic. After going through several pages of results on a search engine, we had only found a couple quality sites. The rest of the results were discussion forum and newsgroup posts, news articles, encyclopedia entries and low-quality or semi-related sites. We thought, "Gee, it sure would be nice to punch in a topic somewhere and immediately get the 10 most popular sites on it."
We decided one reason search engine results were not always useful in finding the best topical sites was that the resulting sites are not hand-picked for quality. Every site on BestSitesNow.com was reviewed and approved by an Open Directory Project editor. You won't find insignificant forum posts and article pages here, just complete sites. The other problem was that search results are sorted by relevancy. On BestSitesNow.com, the sites for each topic are sorted by traffic rankings. The most popular sites are typically the best sites.
This site is essentially an experimental "Web 2.0" mashup of Open Directory Project data, Alexa traffic rankings and information gathered by our own spider bot, plus some manual data processing work. We hope you find BestSitesNow.com to be useful. It's not perfect, but we think it's useful more often than not and interesting nearly all of the time.
The idea for this site came when we (DreamDolphin Media) were building a different site on a specific topic. We wanted to make a links page for our visitors listing the best sites relating to that topic. After going through several pages of results on a search engine, we had only found a couple quality sites. The rest of the results were discussion forum and newsgroup posts, news articles, encyclopedia entries and low-quality or semi-related sites. We thought, "Gee, it sure would be nice to punch in a topic somewhere and immediately get the 10 most popular sites on it."
We decided one reason search engine results were not always useful in finding the best topical sites was that the resulting sites are not hand-picked for quality. Every site on BestSitesNow.com was reviewed and approved by an Open Directory Project editor. You won't find insignificant forum posts and article pages here, just complete sites. The other problem was that search results are sorted by relevancy. On BestSitesNow.com, the sites for each topic are sorted by traffic rankings. The most popular sites are typically the best sites.
This site is essentially an experimental "Web 2.0" mashup of Open Directory Project data, Alexa traffic rankings and information gathered by our own spider bot, plus some manual data processing work. We hope you find BestSitesNow.com to be useful. It's not perfect, but we think it's useful more often than not and interesting nearly all of the time.