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Google updates mobile search
Hot on the heels of Yahoo, Google has launched an update to its mobile search page.There are a few major changes:
- Customize your personal home page with gadgets including stock listings, news feeds, and movie listings.
- Google's mobile search page now remembers your location. So if you were looking for movie listings in Des Moines, then decided to look for a barber shop, Google would show you barber shops in Des Moines first.
- Rather than ask you to search images, news, web pages, etc, Google now searches various media and presents the images, web pages, or other information it thinks you're most likely looking for.
Google claims that the new interface is designed to reduce the number of clicks you'll have to make to find what you're looking for. But presenting different types of search results on one page means it could take a lot of scrolling to find the page you want.
Ask.com has started including official blog feeds in their search results when you search for popular brands or web site names. The feed listing displays the last three or four posts on the website's official blog at the top of the results page, along with a link to the blog itself. The feed even appears above the sponsored listings. 
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, ...
