For your last "super cool" idea. Check out base.google.com I don't 
think its quite what you want, but its kind of cool.  Lots of people post 
things like recipes and then you can search them.
-bill

On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Bethany Soule wrote:

> I think that it would be fantastic if google did decision theory. like
> asking for directions to get from point a to point b. only it gives back
> directions on how to get to a decision.
> 
> Oh, and google should implement the dial-a-linguist hotline.
> 
> And it would be super cool if you could create your own archives on
> google, and then make them public.[1]
> 
> b.
> 
> [1]
> An example: when I was working on curriculum devo stuff for my computer
> classes at SPL I would do a lot of similar sorts of searches for "Adult
> ESL" "Adult Learner" "Basic Mouse" "Learn to type". So I was doing lots of
> very similar searches, and often two different searches under my broad
> category heading would bring me to the same pages. They would also bring
> up a lot of the same Not useful pages. So I would keep lists of the good
> pages and sort of try to build subcategories, but they all fell under some
> broad category heading of "teaching computer skills to abe and esl
> students". . . So, I guess this elaborate explanation comes back to
> bookmarking, doesn't it. Well, because of the way our network was set up
> in the library, I couldn't keep local bookmarks. Besides, there are lots
> of times it would be useful to have a non-local copy of your bookmarks.
> And being able to search through other people's lists could be potentially
> really usefull, because the computer does an impressive job of sorting for
> content based on a few given keywords, but people are even better, except
> you can't have people sitting around sorting the internet for you, but
> this would be a way to get access to a little bit of others' sorting
> 
> On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, anthony nicholson wrote:
> 
> > As a first step, go to http://userscripts.org. This is a repository of
> > customization scripts made to work with the "Greasemonkey" plugin for
> > Firefox (http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/).
> >
> > There are 108 that change how google works, and another 43 or so for
> > google maps. Some of them are unbelievably useful. But then again they
> > might be aware of all this stuff already.
> >
> > -anthony-
> >
> > Daniel Reeves wrote:
> > > Google has improving the world explicitly in its mission statement which
> > > is my rationalization for why I'm not just exploiting this list for my
> > > own selfish purposes in writing this:
> > >
> > > Could you all help me brainstorm ideas for improving Google, to prepare
> > > for my interview with them on Monday, 6pm eastern?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Danny
> > >
> > > ps, new rule: any off-topic email has to at least have an on-topic
> > > postscript.  (I was wracking my brain for such a postscript until I
> > > realized that this itself qualifies!)  And by the way, since it's easy
> > > to delete a whole thread of email that you're not interested in, don't
> > > worry too much about whether your reply is of fully general interest (as
> > > long as you don't change the subject line).  Do worry about that for
> > > starting a new topic, of course, but even then, as long as your subject
> > > line is descriptive, it's ok to target a small subset of the group.
> > > (I'm just throwing general guidelines out there -- basically, keep doing
> > > what you've been doing; it's working fine so far!)
> > >
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 09:55:33 -0800
> > > To: dreeves Æ umich.edu
> > > From: Louise   
> > > Subject: Google
> > >
> > > Hi Daniel
> > >
> > > Great speaking to you.
> > >
> > > I have scheduled you for a technical phone interview on 11/21 at 3pm PST.
> > > Please let me know if you have conflicts.
> > >
> > > Some helpful tips in preparing for your phone interview:
> > >
> > > Consider ways that Google could improve.
> > >
> > > Consider the most difficult bug you've encountered/ fixed.
> > >
> > > Talk through your solutions, as this can help the interviewer to asses
your
> > > thought process and/ or approach
> > >
> > > Visit Google Labs    http://labs.google.com/
> > >
> > > Thanks and good luck.
> > >
> > > Louise
> > >
> > > Louise Gray Irwin
> > > Recruiter
> > > Google, Inc.
> > >
> > > 650-623-5177
> > > louise Æ google.com
> >
> 
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