With this in mind, the good people at Hutchinson, makers of many famous pieces of multimedia, had a bright idea - to take the pain out of the search process. Which is just what the Hutchinson Directory of Web Sites is. The categories you can search under are pretty generalised, and there are 14 of them. In theory, these links are all top quality Web sites. In practice, yes they are always relevant to the subject, but they're not always up to scratch quality-wise.
Some links are fairly tenuous, and give the impression of being 'filler' material.
But these are the minority, and it's not fair to criticise the program too much in this respect, as many of the links are excellent. As a general launching pad for search material, this is certainly a much less painful way of browsing the Web than sifting through some lengthy online search engine listing. But finding specific material using the Hutchinson Directory obviously won't be easy. Verdict As long as you're not after too specifically-targeted search material, the Web Directory works rather nicely. Read our buyer's guide to Internet software.