InformationPlease.info

In the golden age of radio (when your parents and grandparents were young), there was a program called Information Please. It was a game show, similiar in some regards to Jeopardy and other television game shows. It, along with Groucho Marx's You Bet Your Life, is the forerunner of today's games shows that we are all addicted to. Information Please was noted for the variety of questions asked, and was popular for many years. Today's Family First site looks at an Internet location that has the same variety of information, but is intended to provide data, not prizes.

The site is called InformationPlease.info and, as you can see, uses one of the new Internet extenders that are intended to explain what the sites are used for. Here you can get the latest news and information on a wide variety of topics. As I look at it now, there are sports scores (yes, the Yankees did beat the Red Sox today, but it was about 5 months too late) and a story about skiing in China. One feature that is really interesting is the ability to go to different countries using the sidebar menu. For example, click on Countries, click on Brazil, and without any delay, you have the latest headline from that country. There are other geographic options as well.

There are topical selections as well, called the Hot 50 Topics. It is a very eclectic collection of topics, from Cupid to Clay Aiken to the Westminister Dog Show. Movies, television, music, politics, the Internet, all have their topic areas as well. Ebay auctions are listed here as well, for those who need their daily eBay fix (present company included). You never can tell when that latest item that you-gotta-have-but-don't-really-need will pop up!

Sites such as todays are showing how the Internet can be used as an information clearinghouse. This site's forte is up-to-the-minute information from the major news and paper services, as well as reference resources such as the CIA World Factbook. It is an excellent site and well presented and maintained.

http://www.informationplease.info/news.php

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