Since the time voting started in January, over 10,000 unique sites were nominated in the 1997 Best of the Web competition. The top five sites in each category were presented for open voting during December. Below are the sites that were voted the Best of the Web!
Honorable Mentions: Amazon.com (31%) Pepsi (21%)
Honorable Mentions: MSNBC (24%) USA Today (17%)
Honorable Mentions: Spawn (22%) MTV (18%)
Honorable Mentions: NFL (23%) NASCAR (14%)
Honorable Mentions: MacIntouch (13%) Epicurus (9%)
Honorable Mentions: Raven's Nest (22%) Wasson's Web Wonderland (20%)
Honorable Mentions: University of Southern California (27%) University of Texas (25%)
Honorable Mentions: The Computer Museum Network (http://www.tcm.org/) (17%) The WholeFamily Site (13%)
Honorable Mentions: AltaVista (http://altavista.digital.com/) (17%) Excite (12%)
Honorable Mentions: The Bartenders Joke of the Day (24%) Comedy Central (16%)
Honorable Mentions: MapQuest (23%) iPrint (20%)
Honorable Mentions: Polish Community of Victoria (http://www.vicnet.net.au/~polclub/pol_0001.htm) (22%) KansasCity.com (22%)
Honorable Mentions: FBI (21%) The White House (17%)