What Here! Is

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What Here! Is
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Time, choice, quality.

A universal shortcut directory, Here! is a simple combination of time saved, broad choice, and high quality.

It's a website of fast, easy, and useful shortcuts. A site where portals and other start-sites exist shoulder to shoulder. A site from which the major portals, search guides, and the rest of the internet extend. It's a search guide and a start page of shortcuts to the websites you want. It's a site from which you can go anywhere -- and anywhere else! -- portal to portal, search guide to search guide, any site to any site -- without leaving Here!

If Yahoo!, Google, msn, and countless other sites are important tools to you, think of Here! as a toolbox in which you keep all of your most useful tools together, organized, and at your fingertips for fast and easy use.

And because it's a handy and inclusive toolbox, Here! is a great homepage. Yahoo! and AltaVista, msn and Google, Excite and Lycos, AOL and HotBot, these and many more -- they're all right Here!, together, all the time.

Best of the Best

No point re-inventing the wheel. When someone else has created excellent stuff, we'll send you there -- or bring it Here!

From Here!, you can have the best of the best by picking and choosing to suit your taste. You needn't lock in to one major portal as a homepage. None of them has everything you want, but together they come pretty close. So why not have all of them, simultaneously? Personalize several of them, then, from one spot right Here!, use all of them for their strengths. Get your free email, perhaps, from Yahoo!; your stock quotations from msn.com; your horoscope from Excite; your shopping news from About; your computing research from Netscape. Feel free to mix 'n' match among the available portals, and bring all of them up for a look at the same time. Whatever you want from wherever you want. Personalize several of them -- the ones that most suit your needs and tastes -- and from one page right Here!, visit them all with speed, simplicity, convenience.

Here! you can visit your personalized pages and favorite sites -- or any site -- from one page, at one page, all at the same time. For more about this feature, see "Simultaneously Visiting Multiple Sites." Try it. Play around with it. See how useful it can be.

Also, say one of your favorite sites -- Netscape, for example -- is unusually busy and slow to load. You're in a hurry, so you use Google or Yahoo! or another in the Here! list instead. Or in the meantime! While you're waiting for Netscape to arrive. And you do it now, this moment, from one spot on one page Here! From the "Search Guides & Portals" section of Here!, or from any Here! homepage, for instance, and elsewhere throughout Here!

Advertising: None to Minimal

We don't have traditional ads. No popups, banners, etc. We instead provide links that will send you to the websites of enterprises that can do all the advertising they want -- there, on their own sites. On some of our webpages, however, Google, a search partner, provides links to sites whose owners have paid Google for those links. Google calls some of these links "GoogleAds," others "Ads by Google." Usually a promotional blurb of text accompanies each link, so we suppose that technically (but minimally!) these are ads.

Shortcuts = Time

Here! saves you time. With an eye on accuracy, it quickly and easily takes you directly to -- or brings to you (depending on how you look at it) -- some of the best, most popular, and/or most useful sites on the web.

But -- don't want that particular site? -- it also gives you the shortcut option of choosing relevant websites with a variety of topical quicklists at major directories.

It saves you time and effort and endless hunting by providing shortcuts through search directories. With one click, it takes you directly to a list or page of options you'd like to choose from -- a quicklist. Open a bunch of quicklists from different directories and put them on your screen at the same time. Or hopscotch from one quicklist to another: close the first window and, with one click, be in another major directory or search guide, at a new quicklist. Though the option is nice, you don't have to have a bunch of them open at once. Unless you're looking for generally uncommon stuff, or for sites that haven't been listed or indexed by their owners, rarely are you more than a couple clicks from a site or a quicklist that you want or need.

Neighborhood, Community, World . . . Home

Local is now global. So you can take advantage of Here! locally, regionally, nationally, and globally, we've begun to add start pages and civic directories for individual communities. Each one has every feature of Here!'s global home, but also includes local and regional features to serve you and your community. Now the most offbeat community organization, smallest church, and tiniest business can take advantage of Here!'s traffic from the local level to the international level.

At Here!, we base home and community on traditional familiarity. To us, an online community is, in fact, your home -- your actual, physical, geographical community. And any community's homepage -- its Here! start page -- is precisely that: home, including that community's individual civic directory and handy local links. Yet home is connected to the rest of cyberspace, the rest of the world, without ever having to leave home -- without ever having to leave Here! Global. Local. Usefully together from one page at one site.

Your community doesn't yet have a local start page available from us? Then use Here!'s Global Home at www.imeplace.com or www.shortcutdirectory.com. You still get all the benefits of fast, accurate shortcuts anywhere online until your local directory is available. And when will that be? As soon as we can get it online for you. Your community can also speed things up by ordering a priority listing.

To make your online usage easy, quick, and useful, take your first shortcut and start Here!
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