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The Guide to the Best Guides, Portals and Directories

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Types of Guides, Boards, Portals, Aggregators and Directories

Travel Guides
Travel guides and cover everything from your dog-eared Rough Guide to dedicated travel websites with reviews of where to go, what to drink and the local hangover cure. Whether it's another country, a nearby city or a local bicycle trail, travel guides help you get there.

Restaurant Guides
Restaurant Guides include everything from the world-famous print guides like Zagat to your local brewpub directory. Want to find the best vegetarian or vegan restaurants, or just find the best steakhouse reviews? Restaurant and eatery guides can dish it up.

Job Boards and Guides
Job Boards are one of the original types of online guides, including job portals and local classifieds and more recently aggregators that pull jobs from the entire public web. The best job boards are the ones that have the jobs you need, when you need them, and you can find them all right here.

Event Guides and Aggregators
Used to be the only way to find out what was going on in your town was to check the local paper or TV Guide. Now the local paper offers thousands of events online, and hundreds of internet sites can tell you what's going on, when, and who else is going.

Shopping Guides
There are at least two very different types of shopping guides -- traditional "where to go" shopping sites and the more recently evolved Consumer Shopping Engines (CSEs) like PriceGrabber and Shopzilla. You can find both under "shopping" and "product comparison" here on MassGuides.

News Portals and Guides
News portals and guides cover a wide range of very different websites and services. Traditional media outlets like Reuters provide source news for media portals like CNN and the Wall Street Journal. And of course there are now ubiquitous blogs, providing less-formal news on...everything.

Wine Guides
Wine and winery guides provide everything from wine ratings and news on the latest releases, to where to find the best tasting rooms and wine tours. Given the proliferation of both wines and sites in recent years, it can be hard to find the wine site with the wines, users and deals. Not anymore...

Other Guides
It would be foolish to even try to capture every type of guide or directory in the world, online or offline. So there are lots and lots of "other" guides that we don't classify or haven't classified yet. Doesn't mean they're not fantastic guides; just means there's always more on the way...

Hotel and Lodging Guides
Everyone has their own idea of the perfect overnight stay, and whether it's five-stars at the Four Seasons or an intimate bed & breakfast with fresh scones for breakfast, hotel and lodging guides can help you find what suits you best.

City and Local Guides
As websites provide more and more local information, city guides are becoming the best source for what to do and where to do it. City guides cover everything from jobs to nightclubs, and from local news to the best schools. Whether you're a tourist or local, the best city guides are here to review.

Beer Guides
Beer, despite being Homer Simpson's primary source of hydration, can be as complex as it is wonderful - so it helps to have a guide or two to tell you what's good, what's new and what's just plain skunky.