Popular keywords, anyone?

Potential web discovery #1: free website
I've heard of Google pages, and I've heard of Yahoo GeoCities, these are just the two sites I know where you can build your own website. But what about others? Are there anything better out there other than these two I know?

When I'm researching on a technical subject that I know little about I usually first go to Yahoo Answers. Instead of typing a question and waiting for an answer, I just do a search first. Chances are, there's always another person who has posted the question I have in mind.

So, I typed these words on the search bar: best free web, clicked on the first result and discovered that the first asker just read my mind. His question went like this:

Which is the Best FREE Web Host??
I'm looking for a FREE web host. With the minimum of ads and banners, more space, free design (html, css), and that supports video and mp3 files. The one that is better balanced.

I know Free websites aren't the best option, I'm just looking for the most descent one. I wan't this site free in order to practice my web design skills but still looking good and proessional.

Thanks a lot

This guy just wanted a practice ground... Yipeee, I'm not alone in this task!

However, he only got one answer, which I wouldn't want to follow since the answerer pointed to his website to prove his point. For me, that's just dubious and I wouldn't want to take the time or risk to go to his website. So, I moved along and opened the other search results. Just the same, the answerers were giving never-heard sites. So I did a google search. Nope no good answers either. Then it dawned on me. I am searching for the three of the most popular keywords on the internet. I wouldn't want to be led again to some random sites that'll deluge me with more unwanted information. So I might as well stick to what I know, that is-- Google pages and Y!Geocities. I prefer the first one because based on experience the latter just has too many annoying ads in it.

Web discovery: Web search on popular keywords are a waste of time.