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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Jack Schofield

Hot or Not for web sites

"Quite frankly I'm shocked it has taken this long for someone to come out with this -- Hot or Not for websites," says parislemon.

Created by Technorati founder David Sifry, the site [ http://webhotornot.com/] is about as barebones as they come - there isn't even an 'About' page yet. All you get is a screenshot of a site and below that a scale of 1 to 10 of how "hot" it is. If you've ever used the actual Hot or Not site before, it's exactly the same. Once you vote, you are taken to a new site's screenshot to vote on while the last one you just voted on has it's "official rating" updated in the upper left hand corner. Best of all, you don't have to register to vote (it's not even an option).


On his blog, Dave Sifry bills it as "a fun game to play with your friends when you've got a few minutes to waste".

I guess people are going to judge by appearance, given that they won't actually have used the vast majority of the sites.

I don't expect it will attract the 33 million photos and 13 billion votes of Hotornot, but it will amuse a few geeks....

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