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...Search Clusty www.clusty.com Google, Yahoo and MSN dominate search, but we're always on the lookout for an innovative approach. This metasearch engine from Vivisimo clusters results by sub-category to help you zero in on what you need-an approach AOL will take on the new aol.com, launching in July (see sidebar). For more cool new search tech, try Grokker, where Yahoo Search query results are displayed as a circular...
...America Online AOL.com Portal For years aol.com essentially functioned as a log-in page for AOL subscribers who wished to check their email when they were away from their home PCs. Not anymore. In an effort to better compete against rivals Google, Yahoo and MSN, AOL is busy reinventing its public page as a portal, unlocking the gates to most of its members-only Web properties and making the content accessible to everybody. The official launch of the new aol.com portal is scheduled for sometime in July, but parts of it are already being rolled out on a test basis...
...Personalized Home Page There's been so much co-opting in the portal wars that we're not surprised to see Google offering custom home pages, a la My Yahoo and My MSN (and soon there will be My AOL too-see below). But Google's version manages to maintain a streamlined design, even with a busier page. You can elect to display news headlines from a few different sources (the New York Times, BBC News, Wired), plus local weather, a Quote of the Day and a snapshot of your Gmail inbox. You must register for a Google account...
...make sense to use in a theater, but it's a surprisingly accurate system for rudimentary messages. But I wish that the VoiceMode capability extended to the extra text on picture or video mail, and I also that I could have used it when logged into AOL Instant Messenger. The alternative - straight-up thumb typing - isn't nearly as efficient, especially when using the phone's clumsy predictive text software...
...good for us, all this time spent in virtual worlds? Or is it as pernicious as television, sucking us ever further from reality? The AOL survey suggests we're in denial about the extent of our habit. One in 10 gamers claims to be addicted; 1 in 4 admits to losing a night of sleep to play games; and another quarter has been engrossed enough to skip meals. Club Pogo and Sims players average 18 and 20 hours a week on their games. Like a Vegas casino, this is a world in which the sun never rises or sets...