Guess-the-Google

This is serious fun.

Basically, it returns thumbnails from a one-word Google Images search. You have twenty seconds to guess what word was used to build that search.

This is part of the same category of phenomenon as Google Map hacks, and whose significance is explained here by Barney Pell: an example of what begins to be possible "when online data plays well together."

At last year's NPUC conference, I remember Brewster Kahle saying that he looked forward to the day when it would be possible to create something as interesting as Google every month. Maybe we're drawing incrementally closer to that dream.

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