PC Magazine, the independent guide to technology, recently released its list of the top 100 undiscovered web sites. We are honored to be in the list. Here is their short review.
How did we get in the list? That is the first question I asked. Kyle Monson, associate editor at PCMag.com and author of the article explains the process in the lead article. Here are the key excerpts:
For our Undiscovered Web Sites list, we pick those that capture the best of the trends and memes swirling around the Web. Some of these “undiscovered” Web sites are surely known to you, and may even have large Internet followings within their particular niche, but the list’s broad range of sites and categories means there’s plenty of new stuff here for everyone to discover.
This year’s selection committee was headed by Associate Editor Kyle Monson and also included Software/Internet Senior Editor Sean Carroll, Senior Writer Eric Griffith, Lead Analyst Michael Muchmore, Associate Editor Brian Heater, and Intern Jared Preusz.
When judging a Web site, we look at its content, update frequency, design, innovation and usefulness or entertainment value (or both). We compare similar sites with one another, but we also look for a broad range of topics and categories.
The top 100 sites are also organized by category. You will find Catalog Choice listed under Shopping.
Greetings Catalog Choice. I’m the senior writer at PC Mag, and I suggested Catalog Choice for the list. I’m a user of the site and have been ever since I heard your sponsorship bump on NPR months ago. You’ve helped make my once ridiculous pile of recycled catalogs sooo much smaller. So thank you. I hope our readers find your site just as useful.
Thanks Eric! Your users will find the site useful now … and more so in the future as we get more and more merchants to participate in the service.
Love this site! My catalogue mailings have certainly decreases – recently, a few began to sneak back, so I went in and clicked away to send them another notice!
I have touted this site to others and hope they’ll click and get rid of their annoying catalogues.
Thank you~!
kat