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Galaxy It: Search outside, or rather inside the box
Galaxy It certainly fits the bill. While most search engines plot your results in a list that runs from the top of the page to the bottom, Galaxy It arranges results in a series of boxes. At the center of the screen is a box showing your current search term. It' surrounded by text, images, or videos representing pages that match your search query.
In classic mode, you can click on any box to visit the corresponding page. Or if you want to refine your search, you can click the top of a result box and drag it to the center to start a new search. The problem is that the new search term might not have as much in common with your original request as you think. For example, when we searched for "Eee PC," one of the initial results was "Eee PC reviews." When dragged that box to the center, our new search turned out to be just "reviews," so we wound up with reviews for a ton of unrelated products.
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, ...
