Best of the Web (BOTW) has recently announced the launch of BOTW Local Beta on June 18th 2008. While this will still be considered as a Beta release, BOTW Local shows you exactly what a quality local search experience should be like.
Since 1994 BOTW has been providing its users with a clean & quality directory [...]

Totlol is a brand new moderated community video site for “those between the ages of 6 months and 6 years.” All Its current video embeddings are basically based on the YouTube API which gives videos a customized and integrated look.
Totlol’s About page tells us —
“Online video is a great new experience, and [...]

Googolopoly by Box.net is a game similar to Monopoly where the goal is to “organize all of the world’s information.” In order to achieve this goal, the players can buy or build internet properties (e.g. websites).
The Googlopoly board includes common monopoly items like “Go” (“collect 200 shares of VC funding as you pass”) or [...]

Geoquake has recently released sort of a bird’s view driving simulator purely based on the Google Maps Flash API.
Well, in my opinion the “simulation” is a bit far-fetched, as you can pass through any object, like houses etc. (Surprisingly, this simulation works better for me than maps.google.com, where I mostly see gray tiles.)

Are you using Firefox 3 but you miss the Google Toolbar? Well, Google toolbar is now working with Firefox 3 and available for download.
Some silent features of Google Toolbar:
- Add buttons to the Toolbar: to search your favorite sites. View button gallery
- Bookmark frequently visited pages: and access them from anywhere
- Search smarter with [...]

TinEyea is a stunningly fast, and well capable image comparison search engine – you simply provide either a direct image URL or an image from your hard disk, and then it will search the internet and will show similar images. While they don’t have enough images indexed in their Database yet to show a handful [...]

Great News! You know sometimes when I look for some company homepage to get their support email address or something, and then the page will start with a super lengthy 3D/Flash animation that will take 2-3 minute to load… I always used to get annoyed.
Well, that’s why many Flash apps have the infamous “Skip [...]

Google has recently announced that they have made some effort to improve their handing of Flash files in the Google search results; Google says they now have a better capability “to index textual content in .SWF files of all kinds,” including buttons, flash gadgets etc.
Google were already able to find and read Flash files to [...]

Seero.com is a nice service that allows users to mash and sync videos with a Google map. One user mapped a car chase scene from the movie Bullitt with Steve McQueen: to the left you’ll see the video, and to the right the related San Francisco locations.
Interesting! The movie is pretty old though.

Google’s Blogger has recently came out with some cool new features available at the special Blogger Draft site. Some of the features are highlighted below:
- A Brand New Post Editor. The new post editor has a very different image handling. Google says, “When you upload an image to the new post editor it will appear [...]