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So, how do you get one single "best" website on the Internet? There are almost as many different websites out there as there are different people using them. Different people are drawn to different things. What I might think is the best is not necessarily what you will think is the best. Our personal preferences and style, even our age and gender, can influence what we consider to be "the best".

A quick Google search for the phrase "the best website on the Internet", when run at 6:17pm on Monday 16 July 2007 (New Zealand Time, which is GMT +12:00) revealed 734 results. The top result was an article about why a particular person thinks that Wikipedia is the best. The second result was a poll that allowed users to vote for the best website of 2005, and listed options including AOL, Yahoo, MSN, Google, Amazon, and eBay. The third is an article about why Associated Content is the best website ever, and it just happens to be published on the Associated Content website. Talk about self promotion!

The Internet is constantly evolving. The Associated Content claim to be the "best ever" is an interesting concept. It relates to the fact that I specified the exact time and date that I ran my Google search above. By the time you read this article on Helium, if you were to do exactly the same Google search that I did, you may well get different results. I remember using the Internet back in the 1980's, and we all thought that Altavista was just the best search engine ever. That was before the advent of Google. What will tomorrow bring for the ubiquitous Googleplex? Are you, my reader, currently working on a simple search algorithm in your spare time as a hobby, tinkering with C#.NET, which will become the next big thing in search engines?

Being an early adopter of new technologies, I see a lot of what is on the horizon on the Internet. Currently, the big buzzwords for things that I am particularly interested in are: social networking, web 2.0, communities, tags, web presence, online identity. These are the the things that I personally am interested in right now. Oh, by the way, that changes too. What we like today will not necessarily be the same as what we will like tomorrow. Moods change, attitudes, priorities, they all change in lives over time. I know some very young Internet users who would say that the best website ever on the Internet is Nickelodeon Games, featuring the characters of Jimmy Neutron and Spongebob Squarepants. I bet when they're 18 years old or so their

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