Filed under: Internet, Google, Search
Google adds new search result views
You can access the new Map View by adding "view:map" to your search. Google will pull up web results matching your search term and plot their locations on a map based on information found on each web page. Similarly, the new Timeline View finds web sites containing dates and plots them along a timeline, letting you find just recent result, or results from a certain period, like 1997-1999. You can access the Timeline View by adding "view:timeline" to your search.
The Info View (view:info) is a bit more subtle. At first glance, it looks just like Google's normal search results. But on the right side of the page is a menu allowing you to select, dates, images, locations, or measurements. In this view, instead of simply listing text from a web site below its link, Google will list any relevant information meeting your request. For example, when you select images you'll either get a link to a web page followed by several thumbnail images from that page, or a line reading "No images for this page."
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, ...
