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Mountlake Terrace Library Bear and Child
Here is the image I generated using one of the free online image generators.
With my Yahoo! account, I simply log on and, voila, I have access to countless games. I like the Daily Games: The Daily Crosswords and the Wordsense. These games exercise your brain while you have fun at the same time. I like the Top Games feautre because it helps me know which games are popular and those I might like.
It feels like I am a super-man flying through space with Google maps. A colleague at work had just returned from a vacation in France. She was telling us stories about the streets, the people, the wine and the bread.
A perfect opportunity to try Google Earth. We plotted the street address of this southern France village nestled in a valley. With a click of a button we followed the dizzying trajectory to the location, thousands of miles away, in seconds.
I was also able to locate the library where I work. Google even had a picture of the buiding.
Kwami's Avatar
I didn’t know that it is so easy to create your own avatar. I used tektek.org to create this one.
I also saw Ms. Dewey the librarian with an attitude created by Microsoft.
I registered at Second Life. What an experience. Like any new place, I had to learn the rules of living and getting around at Second Life. Really cool.
This U C Berkeley Website offers information about differences between the three main search engines: Google, Yahoo and Ask.com. But these major search engines generally function in the same way.
There are specialized and unique search engines, for example, RollYo and Mammathat eliminate duplication and make searching easier. Dogpile adds another layer of efficiency as it brings all the search engines together on one convenient page.
Now there is what is called the Deepnet or the Invisible Web which needs attention when we talk about search engines. Search engines are only able to see certain documents on the Internet. U C Berkeley and Wikipedia both have articles on the hidden web although a lot of the documents that used to be hidden are becoming more and more visible.
As I was saying, there is so much that other search engines are unable to see or crawl. A new search engine, Cuil pronouced to rhyme with cool, has come up claiming to can “search 121,617,892,992 web pages” a lot more websites than Google, the current top search engine. Check out this Cuil search engine.
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