Finalists

Best Online Consumer Information Service

Awards the best online service and/or website with specific focus on information targeted toward individuals, consumers, hobbyists and home users. Includes travel, sports, consumer medical reference, tax preparation, etc. Excludes services whose primary focus is news.

nationalgeographic.com, National Geographic Society

Nationalgeographic.com is the award-winning Web site of the National Geographic Society, attracting more than 13 million unique visitors a month with its best-in-class content. On the fastest-growing platform of the 21st century, Nationalgeographic.com provides digital consumers with on-demand content including news, video, photography, maps and award-winning short-form video.

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www.criminalsearches.com, PeopleFinders.com

CriminalSearches.com is a free Website that provides consumers with detailed information on people with criminal histories, including sex-related offenses, violent crimes and theft. In a society where personal safety is a major concern, CriminalSearches.com enables consumers to make educated decisions about the people they let into their lives.

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HeritageQuest Online, ProQuest

HeritageQuest Online is an incredible storehouse of American genealogical information rich in unique primary sources, local and family histories, and finding aids, with coverage dating back to the late 1700s. It helps researchers discover their ancestors, trace their paths across America, and learn what life was like in the areas where they settled through millions of records available in an easy-to-use Web interface.
HeritageQuest Online includes all of the images, and extensive indexing, from the 1790 - 1930 U.S. federal censuses. It offers more than 20,000 book titles, including nearly 8,000 family histories and over 12,000 local histories. Additionally, there are more than 250 primary-source documents such as tax lists, city directories, probate records, and more. The Periodical Source Index™ (PERSI™), the most comprehensive genealogical periodical index available, covers more than 6,300 genealogy and history periodicals written in English and French (Canada) since 1800. There are other valuable collections such as the Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, which identifies more than 80,000 American military, naval, and marine officers and enlisted men. Freedman’s Bank Records, considered one of the most important resources for African-American genealogical research, documents more than 70,000 bank depositors and their dependants and heirs.

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CODiE Winner

http://www.travelmuse.com/, TravelMuse

TravelMuse transforms and personalizes the online travel planning experience by providing the first site designed the way people instinctively plan their trips. The site has been called the "next level of online travel" and distinctive in helping people plan based on both their emotional and rational needs.

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