"Discover the best Android apps via search, rankings and categories"

recommendations web service

slide-y faceted searches

"Open Library has upgraded to new software. Improvements include readable URLs, better default cover images, an improved type system and more APIs for developers, including the RESTful API. More improvements are coming soon - check our blog for updates."

beautifully executed nyt article search

"Most of the time, annotating web resources must be done using manually inserted bits of code placed into various web pages. Obviously, that's a challenge when you consider the size of the internet - it would be impossible to manually annotate this ever-growing resource. Unfortunately, without automated methodologies, a true semantic web will remain an unrealized dream.

pop sci and omni guided me safely through adolescence untouched and unscathed... and now i can search them.

"We extracted the colours from 10 million of the most “interesting” Creative Commons images on Flickr. Using our visual similarity technology you can navigate the collection by colour." Very cool if you add several colors to the mix.

visualizing freebase connections

twitter search api

@ Digital Web Magazine

keywords as advertising

searchable UN stats

"The most comprehensive public-chatroom search engine on the web."

"Wine Recommendations - Wine Search Engine - Wine Forum"

Tim Bray's collection of essays on search

so meta, it's not even funny

Another visual meta-search engine