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users to browse the site by topics, including biotechnology, corruption, energy,
finance, money laundering-32 topics in all.
NationMaster
http://www.nationmaster.com/
NationMaster takes the data from the CIA World Factbook, the UN, and OECD and
mines it for statistics, then makes all that information easily accessible. Also, users
can easily generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics. One of
NationMaster's nicest features is the easy ability to view profiles of individual
countries, which includes many details about a country beyond just statistical data.
There is no original data at NationMaster, but it is the single best source for pulling
together, organizing, searching, and displaying data about every country on earth.
Finally, look for directories and country-specific search engines within the
country itself. In my experience, the quality of such sites varies greatly, so do not
give up if the first few you look at are not impressive. Once you have identified the
major ISPs in a country, look to see if they have subject directories; many ISPs are
creating both national and local guides for Internet users. The best will provide
internal search engines and maybe even a translation feature. For example, one of
Greece's major telecommunications and Internet companies, FORTHNet, offers a
directory of more than 32,000 Greek websites.
FORTHNet Directory
http://dir.forthnet.gr/index-O-en.html
How do you find these sites? There is no one way of detecting the best websites in
or about a country but try this: once you find a good website in or about a country,
run a "link" command in Yahoo, Google, Live Search, and Gigablast to see
webpages with links to the page of interest. You can quickly scan these for
interesting-looking new websites.
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