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I've been to thousands of websites in my time. I've forgotten most of them. The majority are just a whispering in the wind, a temporary fad that goes as quickly as it came.

Yet there are a few that endure in my brain. A few that have become truly invaluable to me, for whatever reason, and persist as constant haunts in my daily routine. And though quite a few fall into this category, I will do my best to narrow them down to just three.

3.) GameFAQs.com. If you've ever looked at my selection of articles you'll know that I'm a video game fanatic. I absolutely adore the things, and normally I try to get through them with a minimum of help. However, some defy simple completion - or at least have lots hidden in them, items that I don't have the time or patience to search for on my own - and so I need a way to get around the bumps. GameFAQs provides that smoothed path. There's more information on getting through video games than I could ever find on any other website, and though not every FAQ is bastion of good writing or even factual information, most are well done and thoroughly accurate. GameFAQs is a one-stop shop for cheats and guides, and best of all, it's completely free - not to mention virtually always up, as the FAQs aren't exactly high-maintenance.

2.) Wikipedia. I know, I know, it's not a reliable source of information. The fact that people can freely edit Wikipedia makes it a dubious resource at best. But you know what? I don't care. I've learned more off Wikipedia than I have on any other website online. There's just so much information on it that you can't help but find it at least moderately useful. Besides, most topics are kept honest by a fanatical community of editors these days, and even if you can't rely on everything you read it's still an excellent starting point for other research. Reading Wikipedia entries is a good way of spending one's time, as you'll not only learn something but you can learn virtually EVERYTHING about that something, and spend hours reading supplementary information on the same topic as well.

1.) Google. Not quite a website in the traditional sense - it's a search engine, after all - but I owe much to Google. It managed to supplant Yahoo's huge bank of options with a simple, clean and expansive database of material. Though there are doubtless more efficient ways of hunting down information I instinctively go for Google first, and it's doubtless the word I've typed into my url bar the most. Google keeps Internet surfing friendly - as long as you know what to type in, anyway - and I'm sure it'll remain the king of search engines for a long, long time.

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