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Feedmil: a long tail search engine for RSS feeds
Feedmil is a search engine for RSS and Atom feeds based on the concept of the "Long Tail." Basically, the idea is that small, obscure feeds have an audience as long as the interested people have a way to find them via search technology. So, instead of just entering search terms into Feedmil, you also select a popularity range, anywhere from the obscure to the well-known.By filtering your results by popularity, you'll be able to pare down a bunch of results that are presumably all relevant into the top sites on your topic, or some surprising ones you might not have heard of. Feedmil really does seem to be an effective way to fill up your RSS with new content. I'm not sure what kind of search algorithm they use, or how they index feeds, but the results are certainly high-quality.
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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, ...
