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Googleholic for April 22, 2008

Googleholic for April 22, 2008
Welcome to Googleholic -- your bi-weekly fix of everything Google! In this edition:
  • Google named world's most powerful brand
  • iGoogle gets developer sandbox
  • Google celebrates Earth Day
  • WHOIS OneBox graces Google search once again

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Filed under: Business, Developer, Internet, Security, Utilities, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Blogging, Web services, Freeware

GreatDB - a handy website information tool

GreatDBSometimes you just need to know a little bit more information about the site you're looking at. Maybe you're trying to decide if it's trustworthy, or maybe you're just a little bit (or too) curious. Well in any event, if you're looking to snoop, check out GreatDB.

Punching in a URL into GreatDB will bring back most of the following information: Whois, Site Age, Blacklisting Status, Language, Web Host, Ping Time, Pagerank, Alexa Rank, Backlinks, Search Engine Indexes, DMOZ Listings, Wayback Entries, Top 5 Keywords, Domain Extension Availability, and a Preview Image. Not bad considering all it takes is about 20 seconds of your time.

Probably the creepiest data point on the list is web host, which could be used nefariously to prey on hosting companies with weak security. But everything on the list is information that is publicly available if you know where to look, so it's hard to take issue with any of them.


Filed under: Internet, Web services

Whois.sc becomes DomainTools.com

DomainToolsI do a lot of domain name lookups, some for actual business or research reasons, many just out of curiosity. For quite awhile I used Whois.sc because it was handy: you could type in whois.sc/example.com in any browser's address bar to go straight to the WHOIS record without any fuss (no EULAs, TOSes, CAPTCHAs, or logins), and it had some other nice features like looking up .com/net/org/us/etc. domain names at the same time and prominently displaying expiration dates. Yesterday, however, I did a domain lookup in the usual way and found something completely new: DomainTools.com. For a second I feared the worst—that Whois.sc had been bought out by some company that was going to rain on my parade—but as it turns out, Whois.sc just got rebranded and retooled, and, believe it or not, it's better than ever. The page layout is much improved, the thumbnail images are much bigger and, perhaps best of all, the whois.sc/example.com shortcut still works (and DomainTools assures us that it will stay in operation indefinitely. Unfortunately, some of Whois.sc/DomainTools' services, like reverse lookups and domain histories still require (free) membership, but it always makes me happy when a free service changes and it turns out to be for the better.

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The World's Hardest Game 2.0 - Time Waster

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, ...

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