It is the one of the most useful websites on the internet because of the breadth of content.

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Ms Radinsky told MIT Technology Review that other useful websites included knowledge bases DBpedia and OpenCyc, and language database Word.

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This rendered the websites less useful than their potential for communicating logistics, but still provided some centralization of information.

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But the best way of buying a car is to compare prices between dealers and car importers - many websites have useful comparison charts.

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There are also thousands of websites and books with useful information about business travel abroad.

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Hybrid websites can serve as a useful screen, solving some customers' problems immediately, and gathering enough information about the customer's request to make the eventual human contact speedier.

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Websites like these are particularly useful to physicians who practice in the community and may not have access to other providers for those casual conversations like they do in academic medicine.

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Not to be confused with zombie websites, which have passed their useful life but are maintained as if in aspic.

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Besides the work by consulting firms cited in the text, publications on banking subjects on the websites of Mercer Oliver Wyman and Boston Consulting Group also proved useful.

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When a user types in a keyword, such as a surname or a place name, Mocavo searches genealogy Web forums, websites and old discussion threads that rarely pop up in regular searches but can be useful for genealogists looking for clues.

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