Interesting Links in Web Search

Google University Portal
This mini-portal links to all Google services that can be useful to college students: GMail, Google Talk, Google SMS, Google Maps, Google Toolbar, Google Scholar and Picasa. They missed Blogger. There are also about 40 tips for using Google.

Google Blog Search
An excellent move by Google. The Blogger.com version is even better.

Google Recruiting Video
This 7-minute video shows off not only Google-plex but also the new Flash-based Google Video service (via Digg).

Yahoo Instant Search
This is similar to Google Suggest but way cooler. Instant Search gives you answers as you type - a bubble pops up with the possible results. "You don't even have to hit the Search button or the Enter key, and you don't have to sort through pages of results", the YSearchBlog writes. Instant Search is a part of the other very interesting Yahoo services in beta, available on Next.Yahoo.com. Save to My Web 2.0 is another useful application.

Medical Blogosphere Tag Cloud
KidneyNotes writes: "A tagcloud is an abstraction of keywords from a site or feed, and the size of each keyword in the cloud is proportional to its frequency. Tagclouds allow you to see at a glance what people are talking about." This is powered by tagcloud.com.

Creating a Good Blog Archive
Some useful advice by Philipp Lenssen at Google Blogoscoped

MSNBC News Map
The world news presented on a Virtual Earth map.