Why-Net?
Trying to find genuine information on the internet can be incredibly frustrating. Please try the following. Go to your favourite search engine and type in 'The Isle of Skye'. What do you get? Something like this?
  • All the big sites get listed early on and mostly they are about Skye, OK, fair enough.
  • Then you'll more than likely find big sites somewhere in the world with links back to the big sites on Skye. This is getting silly.
  • Keep going and you'll find pages from other search engines mentioning the big sites and other search engines. Ahem!
  • More results and you'll just as likely find Skye Café in California, 'Skye Suchabody' filmstar, Skye Terriers USA etc... we rest our case.

    • In fact you have to go through thousands of results using lots of different search patterns on lots of different search engines just to find a few hundred sites that are genuinely something to do with 'The Isle of Skye'.

    Which is exactly what Skye-Net has done...

    Skye-Net applies a few rules and tests before a site makes it on to our database.
  • A site must be based on, or have very close links with, 'The Isle of Skye'
  • Each site on Skye-Net has been visited by a real person to make sure it is genuine.
  • Each site gets revisited regularly to make sure it still exists.
  • Sites that use multiple web-site addresses are only listed once.
  • Sites that turn out to be just a page with no content aren't listed.
  • Sites unsuitable for 'family viewing' aren't listed.

    • Of course we might have made a few mistakes and we'll be glad to hear from you if you spot one.

    ...and our objective?. We're going to keep searching, visiting, collecting and collating until... Skye-Net gives its users the definitive, one stop shop for finding web-sites on the Isle of Skye ... Skye-Net puts its web sites, great and small, ahead of the competition.

    Do you realy want to know How-Net?
    Well... we wrote some software to 'ask' different search engines a variety of Skye based questions. The results were analysed for web-site addresses, tens of thousands of them, and every time we found a new one a real person visited it (unless you could tell from the URL that what you'd see would probably make your eyes heal over). If the site had some connection with Skye we flagged it for a repeat visit. On the repeat visit, if the site warranted inclusion on Skye-Net, we recorded the site name, chose a few keywords and picked a category that helped define the site. This then made its way on to our database and so... to you. Simple really.

    We hope you find Skye-Net useful.