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Yahoo integrates blogs, Flickr with news search
This is pretty friggin' sweet -- Yahoo is integrating blog search with their news search, as well as adding Flickr photos and My Web 2.0 results into the mix. This brings together user-created and mainstream media in a way that's unprecedented, totally beating Google to the punch on this one as well as leveraging the goodness of both Flickr and My Web 2.0. The index only includes a subset of the larger blogosphere (those that are included in the My Yahoo feed directory), but will grow to ideally include everything from the blo.gs ping stream. The interface doesn't quite put blogs on equal footing visually -- they're off in a sidebar while the regular news search results are in the main pane -- but I actually sort of like the way this is done. It's not going to alienate mainstream users who want to stick with their traditional MSM sources, but will provide a still visible alternative. Social software nerds (raising hand), bloggers, and others already kicking back with their second (or fifth...) cocktail in the cluetrain dining car can just click on through to the interface that shows blog search results in the main pane and Flickr results in the sidebar at right (here's an example search on Web 2.0). I dig it. For once, I only have one small request -- I want a way to make the blog news search interface my default for news search, so I don't have to click through each time (with option to click through the the mainstream search results).
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So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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Victor Agreda, Jr. said 7:59AM on 10-11-2005
Wow, that is pretty friggin sweet, and they totally beat Google to the punch. Although, where is Google's photo hosting service? Picasa is still a 3-legged dog IMO.
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Barb Dybwad said 10:46AM on 10-11-2005
"Picasa is a 3-legged dog" goes down as one of the best software -related metaphors I've heard, EVAR!
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