Filed under: Web services, Open Source
30 Japanese orgs building new search engine
Mainichi Daily News is reporting that about 30 Japanese organizations in Japan, including the University of Tokyo and major electronics and telecom companies, will be jointly opening a research institute to develop a next-generation search engine. The institute, which will be subsidized by the Japanese government, plans to have the new search engine "put into practical use" within two years. Among the companies involved are Hitachi, Fujitsu, and NTT, and the Mainichi article seems to imply that the end product will be open source.
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, ...
