Filed under: Internet, Features, Web services, Search, web 2.0
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.
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 ...
