PC World's 20th World Class Awards
Our gala celebration of 2002's best hardware, software, and sites--plus a few of the all-time greats.
The Editors of PC World
World Class: Product of the Year
A fast chip. A slick wireless gateway. A potent spyware zapper.
An indispensable search engine. Four outstanding finalists competed to become
our 2002 Product of the Year. And the winner--may we have the envelope,
please?--is
Google. The
leading search engine keeps getting more accurate and versatile while retaining
its clean, efficient look; as Contributing Editor Stephen Manes says, "It's
gotten to the point where you don't even think twice about typing a company's
name into Google rather than the address bar, and when you need a quick answer,
you Google." Small wonder, then, that many of our editor-judges call on it
three, four, or more times a day.
