Newsmap  is a whizbang, Flash-based treemap representation  of the stories flowing through Google News. The Newsmap home page describes it best:

“ Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe “

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Whenever you search for more than one keyword at a time, a search engine has a default strategy for handling and combining those keywords. Can those words appear individually anywhere in a page, or do they have to be right next to each other? Will the engine search for both keywords or for either keyword?

Phrase Searches

Google defaults to searching for occurrences of your specified keywords anywhere in the page, whether side by side or scattered throughout. To return the results of pages containing specifically ordered words, enclose them in quotes, turning your keyword search into a phrase search , to use Google’s terminology.

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Pictogame is a FREE website that lets you upload your picture and create your own fun little games. With a few clicks, Pictogame enables you to make your own game widgets and share them by email, post them on your blog or on your MySpace profile or on any other social networking sites.

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Mtvvui.com helps you to search for and download Streaming Videos from a variety of sources including YouTube, Google, Bolt, iFilm, MySpace, DailyMotion, Blip.tv and Break.com.To download a video from the above video sites all you have to do is paste the Video URL in the box provided , select the video source and click the download button.

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Replay Converter is the easiest way to convert FLV video files captured from YouTube, Google Video, Replay Media Catcher or any other method. FLV Files can be converted to these popular formats:

WMV
AVI
MPEG-4
MP3
3GP (for Mobile Phones)
iPod Video
And more! Over 36 different video and audio options.

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