Thoroughly enjoyed this page at Google explaining how their “PigeonRank” search technology works (via ::Blog 1.5::Witold Riedel::NYC::). Love how the conceit is carried all the way through to the end. Somebody spent some time developing that one.
An interesting application called Google Smackdown from onfocus.com makes use of Google’s new Web API’s (don’t ask me to explain what that is or exactly what it does).
Enter two words or search phrases and see which one appears more on the Web. For kicks, “Andrew Sullivan” is vastly outpolling “Eric Alterman” (9:1 ratio), “Israel” is kicking “Palestine“‘s butt (12:1), and “blog” and “weblog” are more or less neck and neck.
Lastly, came across a Google Weblog, and if you’re like me and can’t get enough of geeks’ favorite search engine, check it out. It’s run by teenage wunderkind Aaron Swartz.