Filed under: Web services, Yahoo!
Yahoo! diving into personalized search
Moving into the space pioneered by Rollyo, Yahoo! has launched Yahoo! Search Builder, which essentially allows users to create customized search engines based on parameters of their choosing. Like Rollyo, Yahoo! Search Builder lets you create a search engine for a particular site or a collection of sites, or the entire web. For example, you could set up a personalized search for all of your favorite recipe sites. It also lets you include or exclude certain keywords, so you could set up a search for all sites that include the keyword sports but not baseball. Lastly, Yahoo! Search Builder also has a Yahoo! News option that lets you include or exclude certain categories or limit news to certain sources. Once you've got those details sorted out, you can customize the way search results are displayed, including adding your own header and logo (though Yahoo!'s own ads and other content are not optional), as well as the appearance of your search box and Yahoo! Search Builder will generate an HTML snippet for you to paste into your web site. When people use your search box, Yahoo! will generate reports on top keywords, traffic, referrals, etc. From start to finish, the whole process is fairly quick and painless. While I'm a big fan of Rollyo, Yahoo! search builder is sure to see some success if only because of Yahoo!'s ubiquity.[Via Lifehacker]
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, ...
