A group a Scottish artists have created a robot band-in-a-box called Cybraphon. The mood of the music being played changes based on real-time searches on how well received the Cybraphon is by people online.
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holy cow … this is huge!
As part of a big breakdown on Searchengineland, this graph lays out which of th URL shorteners people tend to use most.
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer. Conversely, ask a pompous question, get a pompous answer. Google knows all.
We track the battle between left-wing and right-wing sites on important news topics. At 12:40pm on March 04, 2009. we detected breaking news about “Search for NFL players called off”. This page shows the headlines about “Search for NFL players called off” from both sides.
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Google Zeitgeist releases Google's fastest rising search terms of 2008, meaning the ones that rose the most in frequency as compared to 2007. All the expected terms are there (Obama, Facebook, etc.) but, David Cook? Really, world?
Tech Buzz The new social networking website, Ziggs.com, apparently allows users to get instant emails every time someone Googles them and checks out their profile. Sign up and you’ll find out where the searcher is located, what time the search occurred and what key words were used in the search to find you on Google. Damn, there goes anonymously stalking someone on the internet.
Tech Buzz A new search engine hopes to rival Google. Launched by former Google engineers, Cuil (pronounced ‘cool’) claims to be larger and more relevant than Google, and it’s got a pretty slick look.