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Google News, now with Suggest(TM)
Okay, I'm kidding about the "TM" part (I think), but Google engineer Jon McAlister spent some of his 20% time to build a
Google Suggest-like interface into Google News,
providing you "with search suggestions specific to news in your country, in real time, while you type." So
this sort of Ajax trickery is much less impressive than it was back in 2004, but I think it's pretty handy for
expanding your news searches based on current events. Currently the suggest feature isn't active on the default Google
News home page and must be accessed by going to news.google.com/news?complete=1, and it only works for the U.S.
site.[Via Google Blogoscoped]
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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Razib Ahmed said 8:13AM on 5-04-2006
I just visited the link and I think it is cool. It is so good that it will save a lot of time to professional people like me who spend all day beside PC with Internet. Thanks a lot for the post.
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