The presentation below from Google docs explains the way Subprime worked. This is a rather complex system. But all the system bears on a very simple assumption: House prices should always increase. Of course it couldn’t work for ever.

Subprime Explained - Google Documents
 

GmbmG or Give me back my Google is a custom search engine that cleanup Google search results, removing the annoying affiliate links (kelkoo, …). This is useful when searching information on a product. By default Google results are bloated with those links which are most of the time irrelevant. Here is a extract from the [...]

I’m a little sceptic about  Backle. I don’t know if it is serious or if it is a big joke. Anyway, Backle is a google custom search page completly black that is suppose to save energy compared to the standard Google blank page. I reproduce a part of their description below:

 
Blackle saves energy because the [...]

Google released a service to create custom search engine. I played a little with the tool to create a dedicated Excel search engine. Here are some information taken from the FAQ:

What it is?

A Custom Search Engine is a tailored search experience, built using Google’s core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on [...]

Sign-up new writely account is open since yesterday (August 17th 2006). Then I sign-up for a new account and trying to publish to my Wordpress blog using writely. The interface is simple yet full of features. There are 2 levels of menu at the top. The features that I found interesting are:

The ability to edit [...]