WorldSkip
http://www.worldskip.com.
Many of us fall into a “migratory pattern” when looking for information online — visiting the same few Web sites we know and are comfortable with — even if there might be other sites that could be more helpful. I always tell my students: “Think for 10 seconds before you touch the keyboard, and you will save yourself 10 minutes of wandering around the Web.”
Take a common search example such as looking for information about a particular country. Most users might just go to a search engine and type in, say, “Afghanistan.” But you are likely to end up with thousands of superflous and tangential links about Afghanistan.
That’s why in situations like that, I prefer a site called WorldSkip: http://www.worldskip.com. I use it when I need instant access to information about a country I know nothing about. Instead of visiting a search engine, I go to WorldSkip and choose the country from a convenient pull-down menu.
The site provides links to news, business, government, transportation, etc, for 220 countries. The pull-down menus allow you to skip from one country to another quickly, hence the name.
WorldSkip, which is based in Oakland, Calif., has built mini-portals for each nation and sells Web ads, often country-specific ones, to support its enterprise. One annoying element: The top frame it puts on external sites. It should have a “turn-off frame” feature, but does not.
See WorldSkip’s Afghanistan site.
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