33 Google API Applications

Tools You Might Have Missed on Google Blogoscoped. Includes, a collection of research tools that Philipp Lenssen from Germany made, as you might have missed them the first time around. Many of them access the Google API. They include:
  • Actors: What roles does an actor play?
  • AnyRank: Find the CurseRank, GeekRank, NaughtyRank, or IntellectRank for your URL.
  • Neighborsearch: Searches within pages linked from a site.
  • Moviebot: See automated movie ratings, like for "Terminator."
  • Google Mini: A small version of Google (IE-only).
  • Google Rotated: A rotated version of Google (IE-only).
  • The Google Family Tree: See relatives of any famous person.
  • Ageshare: In which age group do keywords like "ice cream" appear most often?
  • Categorizer: Automatically find a category for your keywords.
  • FindForward: Collects many different search tools from this blog.
  • Citybrowser: Find out everything about a city.
  • The Google Encyclopedia: Data-mining through search engines.
  • Domain Generator: Get a random domain name.
  • Google Years: Show the PageCount for the years 1000-2100.
  • Illusionizer: Replaces the images on any page by matching Google Images results.
  • Memomarker: Get the "Googlonym" for any URL or text.
  • PageBoost: Get only positive reviews for your URL.
  • Permutator: Find variations for any URL.
  • PersonMap: Which character traits most closely describe you or another person? The nearer an attribute is to the center, the more fitting it is.
  • Image Quiz: My stats tell me this is the most popular page here ever.
  • Quote Finder: Check if a source is original or taken from somewhere else.
  • Random page: Takes random words, googles them, and redirects you to the first page found.
  • Random Book: Grabs a random book, CD, DVD, or VHS from Amazon.
  • Random Ego-Googler: Find a random person on the web.
  • Memecodes: Darwinistic random page genes in a battle for search engine attention.
  • Search Grid: Truly two-dimensional search results.
  • Stereoscopic ASCII vision: Create one of those images you need to gaze on for a minute to see them in 3D.
  • Google Suggests: Find out what options Google Suggest offers.
  • Word Popularity Colorizer: Visualize how frequent keywords are relative to the context they appear in.
  • Theorybot: Random theories on the click of a button.
  • Egobot: Talk to the web through Egobot.
  • The Google Couch Potato: Infinitely stream Google Videos.
  • The Memespread Analyzer.
  • Keyword Variations: Finds site with variants of your keyword.
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