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Find (some) answers with QueryCAT
When it works well, you get a pretty decent response to your question listed right on the front page, no click-through necessary. That's because the site has found a direct match to your question and displayed the answer. For example, if you ask "What is Thunderbird?" You will find that "Thunderbird is a free, open-source email client based on the Mozilla code base."
But there are limitations to this system. For example, "How to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows" comes up with one irrelevant result, while the same search on Google brings up several helpful tutorials.
QueryCAT's Kevin Carey says the site currently has about 2-million questions and answers indexed, but the goal is to double or even triple that number within the next few weeks, which should result in better search results.
[via Google Blogoscoped]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
