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February 3, 2000

Save time by visiting website Quickbrowse

BY BRIAN KIM
The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

Ever get annoyed while surfing the web? You type in an address (or click on one of your bookmarks) and then you have to wait for the web page to load up. You read what you want to read, then go to a new address. Again you have to wait as it loads. And as you go from web page to web page, you have to go through the same click, type and wait routine. That has been the way most people surfed the web ever since the browser was invented. That was the only way, until now.

Quickbrowse.com offers a new, innovative approach to surfing the information superhighway. It takes the websites you love and puts them all on one page. You just have to scroll up and down to see what you want to see.

There's only one site to click and one load up to wait for. Simple, fast and best of all, it's free. It's probably the most convenient and fastest way to surf the web.

"Quickbrowse a quick hit Skimming 20 newspapers on the web over morning coffee has become standard practice for anyone living on Internet time – entrepreneurs, journalists, day traders, even students," says the New York Post. And they aren't the only ones noticing this novel website. US News and World Report, The Wall Street Journal, and many others have been giving quickbrowse rave reviews.

It was invented by Marc Fest, who was a correspondent for German newspapers and magazines. He would look at dozens of websites each day to find stories. Thinking of the amount of time that could be saved if all these websites were just on one page, Marc invented this program with what little programming knowledge he learned from high school.

It was only a personal tool to help him do his job more efficiently.

"It cut my daily research time down from 2 hours to 20 minutes," says Fest. But such a great idea doesn't stay hidden for long. Eventually the program got noticed and has become quite a success story causing quite a buzz among Internet investors.

So how does Quickbrowse work? All you have to do is go to www.quickbrowse.com, and type in your e-mail address and a password. Then you just type a list of all the webpages you'd like on one page. Click on the Quickbrowse icon and the site compiles your list into one masterpage and all you have to do is scroll down to get the information you want. If you want to have an idea of what the list or masterpage could look like, there are already several of them created and waiting to be accessed.

You can save your masterpages so you don't have to create them every time. They even have a way to save your masterpage as a bookmark so you don't even have to go to quickbrowse.com to access it. Another unique option is the email service that they provide. You can have the web address of your masterpage e-mailed to you at specified times.

Quickbrowse makes web surfing faster and easier, but it's not recommended for all users. It's only effective for those who tend to check the same web pages all the time like people who read newspaper web pages or other news sites.

If you are searching for new web sites, or researching a topic, Quickbrowse may not be as useful (search engines are the what you're looking for). However, it's design promotes creativity in the user (perhaps a masterpage of search engines).

Most internet users will find this website truly advantageous. Quickbrowse is a revolutionary way to customize your web surfing experience, giving you a greater level of efficiency. For those of you who don't have the luxury to click and wait all day, Quickbrowse is for you.


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