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On 12 Apr 2000, at 20:01, Linda J Herman wrote: > Thanks to Murray Charters for all the Parkinson's links you have been > sharing with us > Well, thankew very much Linda for your supportive comments! > > - it would be great if all these links could be included > on one or more of the PD Web Sites for permanent reference. > Janet Paterson has graciously added a mmmurray page to her ever growing WWWonderful WWWeb site... http://www.geocities.com/janet313/pienet/wwweb/index.html sooo... all these links have been included on one or more of the PD Web Sites for permanent reference thanks to JP. > > It's very helpful to see good web sites that have been selected by other list > members. I find it's getting more and more difficult to sift out the > "good", from the growing number of commercial sites and all the > misinformation on the Web. > This morning I tried doing a simple Alta Vista search for > "Parkinson's Disease", as a new Internet user might do - and looked at > the first 20 results. > But first, on top of the screen was a banner ad (these are often > customized according to your search topic) stating: "Live Your Life" - - SNIP Ah, the very reason I have pretty much abandoned Alta Vista as a search engine... Another thing FWIW ... I use Opera as my browser and "turn off" all the images for better speed and more concentration on "text content" and I don't even see most of the advertising.... > > Linda Herman > All the very best Linda and Fran and all ..... murray