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  • 47 of 47 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    djsteven

    5 Stars the good all-round information site 02/08/2002
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages variety of content, easy to navigate

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    As many of you know I work as a DJ, and as part of this work I do some weekly radio shows presenting music and chat to my listeners. Not wanting to sound like an amateur, I do my homework before I go to the radio studio and make sure I have with me the latest news headlines, sports news, entertainment and music news, cinema release news, TV schedules, quirky and funny news items, and facts and trivia items. Now I could easily sit for hours online and browse through numerous sites to find all the information I require, but as this op is going to show you, I don’t have to. Thanks to the beauty ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    markd_uk

    5 Stars The Only One To Set Your Homepage To 08/01/2005
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Interesting news from around the world

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It's addictive

    News portals abound across the Internet, from BBC's newspage to Sky News' and on to CNN International. But the one I keep coming back to is Ananova, a British news portal that not only reports on the serious aspects of life, but the quirkier sides of the world too. Ananova, part of mobile giant Orange, offers much the same News service as other sites it competes with, but its interface is immediately refreshing - it's nice and clean, laid out neatly, and not cluttered with adverts and sidelines. Visit Ananova's homepage and you're faced with a clean and crisp white page. At the top, just ... more
  • 24 of 24 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    stoffy

    5 Stars Super Nova 06/01/2003
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages quick and easy to navigate site, with basic gist of current stories

    Disadvantages Disadvantages lacks detail

    Despite sounding as if it is the latest Russian tennis sensation rather than an information provider, Ananova has established itself as one of the www’s most popular British news site. Almost three years old, it mixes the serious side of life with the light-hearted and is a breath of fresh air amongst other more traditional and conventional news services on the Web. One of the quicker sites on the Web (it doesn’t take practically half and hour to load up like the BBC one can do), it has a well organised and simple home-page, with no annoying pop-ups. On first impressions, it is ... more
  • 29 of 29 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    dave27

    5 Stars Pretty hot for news 10/12/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Very timely and reliable

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None really

    Apologies, venerable members of Ciao, but difficult disputes over copyrighting of opinions mean that for the time at the least I have had to remove the opinion that used to be posted here. I have to say that had Ciao’s payment structure remained as generous as it was previously then it would not have been the Ciao site that is suffering. However, as I have never received a solitary bean for this opinion despite the reads then I do not believe anyone should hold it against me that I have removed the opinion that was here previously and replaced it with this apology. Not all of my opinions ... more
  • 68 of 68 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Manx

    5 Stars Alert. Alert. Alert. 28/03/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Easy, quick and good. The email alert feature is fantastic.

    Disadvantages Disadvantages I'm going to whine about not being able to watch Ananova herself - even though that's not their fault.

    If you are reading this opinion then you are lucky. No, you’re not at all lucky that you get to suffer the length of this review (or however long it takes to scroll down and rate) but you’re lucky because your computer clearly isn’t infected with the “Magistr” virus. “Magistr” spreads itself in a similar way as the infamous “I Love You” bug, but it randomly renames itself so you can’t tell whether any incoming viruses have it or not just by looking at the title. Rather than being simply content with spreading itself, Magistr ... more
  • 11 of 11 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    assethound

    5 Stars The Sport Without The Thrupp'nys 16/07/2000
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gems everywhere you look

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Don't expect highbrow, strictly lowbrow

    My first choice for news is Ananova - where else can you read stories like "Man Comes Back from Dead To Sign On" and "Major Crack Haul Was A Coconut"? I never knew the world was such a strange place until I started reading the news on Ananova.com. The only other place you get to read stories like this is The Daily Sport, with its infamous headlines like "World War Two Bomber found On The Moon", and "Greenfly Ate My Lettuce Lover". The one good reason to ignore The Sport and surf over to Ananova instead is that Ananova do not have a nipple count. The documentary on The Sport, recently repeated ... more
  • 12 of 12 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 6 Mel27

    Member since 11/02/2004

    Reviews written: 324

    4 Stars Ananova.com 30/05/2004
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Good variety of news

    Disadvantages Disadvantages It's no longer possible to read earlier stories you have missed

    Ananova.com is a news website which has 5 main categories - News, Entertainment, Sport, Business and Video Reports. There is also a TV Guide and a Weather section. On the front page there are many links, which of course change as the news changes. Video reports cover a rather small section of news. You can watch Ananova videos on a PC with Windows Media Player or RealPlayer version 8 (or higher). The first main link on the front page is the one entitled "The Home Of Breaking News". This leads you to a page about the various services Ananova provides. For instance, you can get news alerts on ... more
  • 5 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    psipple

    5 Stars Good news - stories by email 21/02/2001
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Up-to-date, and stories by email

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    An impressive news site that I tend to keep going back to. It's very up-to-date, beating the BBC site on a couple of occasions recently, and very customisable. Favourite for me has to be the Ananova Alert service. Put in you area of interest, say 'Computer viruses', 'Space shuttle' and 'Stock market', or, for instance, the name of your company, and if the keyword appears in a news story, that story will be emailed to you within minutes. I've set up around a dozen such searches, plus subscribe to their 'breaking stories' option, and, with a little fine-tuning, actually get the stories I'm ... more
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