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Information
on celebrities is a very popular topic
online and sites that help us find out
about our favorite celebrities have
become very popular indeed.
This
choice review looks at the leading
sites, those who provide the best
celebrity information in the best
format. The top sites are
summarized in a top 10 directory, and
the top choices from that directory
reviewed.
easy,
quick and convenient access to
celebrities info...
The
days of searching through various
search engines for celebrity info have
given way to a newer approach, that of
the site which makes in-depth
celebrity info available from a single
source. Now these
sites make it as easy as just entering
a celebrity's name to get biographies,
filmographies, pictures, career
highlights and links to other sites of
interest like fan sites and clubs. These are the
specialist celebrities portals, and
the leaders in the field are very high
traffic sites.
One of
the features of many good modern-day
Web sites is their "pyramid"
information structure, where a single
page or a simple search leads to more
layers of information, which in turn
lead to more again making the single
starting point the tip of a large
information pyramid. Some of the top
celebrities sites display this
characteristic quite well and as a
result they are good one-stop sources
of quick but detailed celebrity info.
With
the top sites you can perform a simple
search or browse to a single page
which leads to categorized celebrity
info like biographies, filmographies,
pictures, news, boards and fan sites.
Easy, quick and convenient.
We have taken
the top 10 celebrity sites and evaluated them from
a users perspective, looking mainly
for the features that the majority of visitors
to celebrity sites want. These include:
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Sites
which provide a good all-round
window of information on a large
number of diverse individual
celebrities.
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Good
depth of celebrity information -
including biographies,
filmographies, pictures, news,
boards and fan sites.
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Sites
with easy and convenient
information structure, preferably
with good information pyramid
structure.
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 1ST
CHOICE
E! Online Celebs
The
Choice Review first choice for
celebrities sites is E! Online Celebs.
E! Online was named by Yahoo! Internet Life as one of the "Most Popular Entertainment Sites" on the Web, and the magazine also named E! Online as "Best Entertainment News and Gossip Site" two years in a row. And that is just the start of their many awards. They are a well respected site
in the industry and provide celebrity and entertainment information with a fun,
and sometimes irreverent tone.
A celebrity search returns a fact sheet about the celebrity including a brief biography, awards and quotes. It also provides links to
the next level of information
available like career credits, news stories, features, video clips and links to fan clubs.
As well as celebrity information they provide entertainment news, original features, gossip, reviews, games and live-event coverage.
E!
Online are one of the longest standing
entertainment sites and at the time of writing they were averaging over 4 million hits a month.
TOP CHOICE
Lycos Celebrities
The Lycos Celebrity portal provides good "information pyramid" structure of information on celebrities, along with
a mine of additional information like interviews, gossip, slide shows and videos.
They give easy access to a huge amount of categorized celebrity information from a simple search.
A search on their celebrity portal will return a page with
"star facts" and a biography. This page is just the tip of the information available, though, because they also provide links to a filmography, pictures, news, clubs, boards and fan pages so you can find as much on that celebrity as you want.
A well planned, in depth celebrity resource.
TOP CHOICE
Celebhoo
Celebhoo are
popular providers of information and news for celebrity fans around the World.
Celebhoo maintains a large, searchable database of reviewed links to celebrity fan pages, as well as providing
information like famous birth dates, gossip, movie reviews and other original content.
One of their best features is their search function which returns reviewed links from
their database of relevant sites. These links are rated by users, so you get a good idea of each sites content and worth before clicking the link.
The site is fast and well designed so
you get to the info you are looking for quickly.
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