benosey.com

...a bad thing that the benosey.com team have included this into their product. It’s known as one of the quickest and most extensive search engines out there and can be very useful to internet users.


~ THIS MONTHS TOPTEN WEBSITES.
It is unclear where this information comes from as no detail is provided. It does include links to sites such as Yahoo, ebay, Friends Reunited in it’s current rundown. It would be nice if these ...
...store benosey.com under my favourites and use that to guide me and point me in the right direction.

Definitely a tool I'll use now and again, but only rated as average as at the moment it doesn't hold too many results due to it's logo based nature.  ... more

Manoeuvring through the Hangar Lane Gyratory is at the best of times a boring, slow, monotonous journey and my wandering eye is always on the lookout for any posters, flyers etc which usually adorn the lamp posts and walls of the area.

One yellow notice in particular caught my attention earlier this year – benosey.com.

I made a mental note to check out the site and see what it had to deliver, half expecting it to be a joke!

The result however is a web directory using company logos to aid the person conducting the search. This may be seen elsewhere about the web but it’s not something that I have come across before.

The website’s slogan is “Benosey.com – the easiest website in the world just click a logo’.

The home page is quite clear-cut and simple but does not look cheap and tacky. It is simple to use and quick to load (even the logos) Based on a white background some bright colours detail the five main features accessible from the home page and these are:

~ WHATS ON TV NOW?
A link to the simplistic yahoo TV guide. The only thing in its favour is that it covers some digital / Sky channels and provides a good at a glance guide to what’s on at what time.

~ GOOGLE SEARCH ENGINE.
Recommended by 99% of Ciao opinion writers at time of writing so can’t be a bad thing that the benosey.com team have included this into their product. It’s known as one of the quickest and most extensive search engines out there and can be very useful to internet users.

~ THIS MONTHS TOPTEN WEBSITES.
It is unclear where this information comes from as no detail is provided. It does include links to sites such as Yahoo, ebay, Friends Reunited in it’s current rundown. It would be nice if these were the top ten sites selected by users of benosey.com, but I cannot be sure of this.

~ ADVERTISING
Five advertising banners for well known companies appear discretely at the bottom of the home page and do not appear in that awful pop up format that really ‘gets in your face’. The advertising is not over the top and does not intrude into the page layout at all.

~ WEBSITE DIRECTORY
This is the main feature of the site and beneath an invite to ‘click below’ is a list of 13 categories for us to choose from. These are:

·Official - a selection of websites for political parties, police, armed forces and many others.

·Search engines - links to 26 search engines many of which I hadn’t heard of.

·News – A great selection of all the top newspapers and other media news outlets. A part of the site that I will use often.

·Tickets – More ticket outlets listed than I knew about. Would definitely come here if searching around for a bargain night out.

·Banks
·Holidays
·Fitness
·Jobs
·High Street
·Funny
·DIY
·Football
·Help – I though this was going to be the sites own help page, but instead it’s a comprehensive list of charities and other organisations that we may need to turn to in life.

Quite intrigued by the thoughts behind this idea I did email Benosey using the link at the bottom of the home page. They promptly replied and advised that this just the building blocks for an idea they hope to launch towards the end of the year. I was quite impressed by the way they asked for my feedback on the site and seemed quite keen to develop and improve their site.

This is a novel idea but I’m not sure how useful it will be to the more experienced internet user. This is because the large corporate companies, that we all know and love, generally have a web site address based around their name. This means that they are quite easy to find.

Where it does stand out a little, is in it’s listing of the more obscure web sites that people such as myself might not stumble on or think about that quickly.

I feel that this web site is an extension of my favourite places. Rather than clogging it up with all these well known sites, I’ll just store benosey.com under my favourites and use that to guide me and point me in the right direction.

Definitely a tool I'll use now and again, but only rated as average as at the moment it doesn't hold too many results due to it's logo based nature. 

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