10 Top News

1. Washington Post
   
2. Reuters [ International ]
3. CNN Interactive
4. New York Times
5. Wired
6. Libération
   
7. BBC
8. The Nosy Reporter's Corner
9. Online News Association
   
10. press Over The World

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10 Top Search engines

1. Northernlight
   
2. Alltheweb
3. Google
4. Open Directory
5. Alta Vista (Digital)
6. Open Text Index
7. InfoSeek
8. EINet Galaxy
9. WebCrawler
10. Lycos

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10 business

1. My Virtual Reference Desk
2. Rural Vermont.com
3. Oxford Online
4. eBay
5. NOVA Online
6. Learn2.com
7. webreview.com
8. The Car Connection
9. NewsTracker
10. UNESCO Observatory on the Information Society

10 Leisure

1. National Geographic
   
2. Operadio
3. It's Happening! EventsLINK - United States
4. Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing
5. Vincent Van Gogh Gallery
6. Internet Movie Data Base
7. Real Beer Page: Events
8. Halloween
9. MovieCritic

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10 Top Government

1. Africa.com
2. French Government
3. New Zealand Government
4. The Clinton's white house
5. e-Campaigns
6. Her Majesty's Treasury (UK)
7. Moscow Kremlin 3W Guide
8. The Vatican
9. Prime Minister's residence (Japan)

10 Top Technology

1. NASA
   
2. Encyclopedia Astronautica
3. Slashdot
4. Parascope
5. Disiformation
6. Satellite Observing Systems
7. Declassified Intelligence Satellite Photographs
8. Mercurio Server: Information for Railway fans
9. Technology Review (MIT)
   
10. USGS Pacific Marine Geology

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10 Top Directories

1. 1st World Yellow Pages
2. Timeanddate OANDA (money)
3. Calendars
4. Travlang
5. Weather Report
6. Dictionnaries
7. Power Links : Your Web Guide to Cyberspace
8. Deutsche Hochschulen (Felix Holderied)
9. The Writer WEB
10. Cuisine au curry

10 Top Original

1. The Bartenders Joke of the Day
2. MapQuest
3. Unclaimed Baggage Center
   
4. SkyVodka
5. allgame Guide
6. chatworld
7. Come Explore Ancient Civilizations and Sacred Sites
8. Histoire de l'Art
9. Trojan Room Coffee Machine
   
10. Standard disclaimer

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10 Top France

1. Global Village French Quarter
2. Le TOP Ouaibe - http://ouaibe.com/
3. The Paris pages of Norman Barth
4. Nomade
5. INDEXA - L'Annuaire Internet des professionnels
6. Hapax: French Resources on the Web (by Angelo Metzidakis)
7. Saint Pierre et Miquelon (Marc Cormier)
8. Prenez le train (J. Cassaigne, ENS)
9. Le Monde Diplomatique
10. French Web Resources

10 Top French Language

1. Faculté de médecine - Rennes
2. Annuaire des administrations Francaises
3. Nomade
4. Adminet Francophone
5. Lokace : Un moteur de recherche sur les sites de langue française
6. Communipomme (Blondin)
7. Les blagues de fr.rec.humour
8. Le coin des francophones et autres grenouilles
9. Chroniques de Cybérie

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Grateful thanks to :

Alexandre Scherer ; alexscherer@geocities.com
Nicolas Miller ; miller@cybercable.tm.fr
for useful help.