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Rank'em distinguishes itself from       performances at the House of Blues
other music ranking sites by            and Montreux over other releases
focusing on individual artists'         of the song. Since you're not
catalogs. You can't rank and            ranking one band against another
compare Rush against Yes, but you       but instead the discography of a
can look at and rank their              band against itself, Rank'em
individual discographies against        provides an interesting look into  

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Google today launched a new Gmail       selection of matching documents
Labs feature called Apps Search         from Google Docs below your mail
that, when enabled, lets you            results. To enable it, head to the
search both your inbox and Google       Labs tab in Gmail, find and enable
Docs straight from Gmail.               Apps Search, and click the Save
Once enabled, your Search Mail          Changes button at the bottom of
button is replaced by a Search          the page. Gmail will reload, and   

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URoomSurf takes the guesswork out       you are and then how neat you'd
of selecting a roommate by              like your roommate to be. You may,
matching you up to potential            for example, be a devout Catholic
roommates, much like popular            but not care at all about the
dating sites, based on your             religious leanings of your
preferences and answers to basic        potential roommate.                

questions.                              Although currently in beta testing 

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If you've been underwhelmed with        trending topics based on the
Facebook's public search portal,        number of people talking about the
Booshaka offers a better way to         topic, comments made about it, and
peek at trending topics on              how recent the topic started
Facebook with ranking based on          gaining traction.
popularity, number of comments,         If you're not searching for a
and recent activity. Booshaka           specific trending topic, Booshaka  

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While most popular torrent sites        You can browse movies by genre,
are trackers with a more                latest uploaded, and what's
minimalistic search engine,             popular, and you get a ton of
newcomer Take.fm takes a different      information on the torrent you're
approach, focusing on the               downloading, which is helpful. On
searching, browsing, and community      top of that, you get a ton of
aspect of BitTorrent.                   information on the                 

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While popular services like             Historious essentially creates a
Delicious focus on tags to              custom search engine for stuff
organize your bookmarks,                that you've bookmarked for later.
Historious adds a Google-like           Like most sites, you can easily
search engine to filter through         bookmark a page with the
them even more efficiently.             Historious bookmarklet. One of the
Historious seems to fill the nice       biggest perks to Historious,       

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Chrome (Windows/Linux) only: The        creates a new search engine in
things we type into Google, and         Chrome, which you can then set as
which Google suggests to us, can        the default to make all your
be the most private information         Google searches secure, or change
about us. Chrome users now have an      its keyword for a quick encryption
easy way to encrypt their searches      toggle. Your searches should be
and suggestions through an              safe from prying eyes, but they're 

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Almost like a less offensive Urban      can rattle off, but the search is
Dictionary, IdiomDictionary is for      its most useful function.
those phrases that everyone seems       Unfortunately, it doesn't go the
to understand except                    other way—if you're looking
you—instead of getting them       for a clever way to say something,
to explain it, you can look it up       you can't look up an idiom for
in their giant database of over 5,      that idea. I can't search "relax", 

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Want to pull up that link you           you'll see searches you've made
found at home while you're away         and links you clicked on, with
from home? If you've enabled            tiny icons to distinguish your
Google's Search History feature,        laptop/desktop activity from your
you can now pull it up from the         phone searches. There's also, in
Google home page on your iPhone or      Google fashion, a "star" you can
Android browser.                        add to items you'd like to mark    

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If you're exercising outside of         statistics, such as your age. Once
the gym but still want the              you've inputted a specific
comforting statistics provided by       physical activity and other
modern technology, Wolfram Alpha        relevant information (such as
can help you calculate your             distance and time), Wolfram Alpha
calorie burn for nearly any             will provide you with several
activity—like climbing the        statistics regarding your exercise 

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