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Bing considered itself as “decision engine”, but it seems Hunch is the real decision engine that works better than Bing. Hunch is now launched. When you visit the site for the first time, you will be asked lots of questions. It will let Hunch to know more about you. It is recommended to create an account so that you don’t have to answer the questions every time you use it.

After all, try to make some decision. For instance, you can check whether you have eating disorder. It will then show you less than 10 questions in most cases. You can also skip the questions whenever you want. After you have finished the test, it will show you the results in percentage. It will also provide additional information if you want to know more. If you are interested, you may also help to create new quiz.

You can always use Hunch to decide whether you should buy iPhone or Palm Pre, choose a laptop or even decide where you should go for vacation. It’s better than entering search keys in Bing. Hunch really helps users to decide what they should do in daily life. It seems Hunch knows how to be a real decision engine rather than copying or criticizing Google.

Users are still using Google after Bing is launched. Bing failed to maintain its #2 position over time. Most people don’t know how the search results different in Bing, Yahoo! and Google. Check out the BlindSearch. It shows the results in 3 columns. The greatest thing is that you can vote and decide which column provides the best results. It will then show you the name of search engine. I really want to know which search engine get the highest number of votes.

YouTube provides nice videos with info and comments, but not everyone loves them. Comments can distract your viewing experience. If you want to watch YouTube quietly, you should add this QuietTube bookmarklet. Drag this: QuietTube to your bookmark, when you want to watch YouTube quietly, click the bookmarklet, and you will see the plain background with very rare information on the screen. Much clearer? You can now focus on the content of the clip. Enjoy.

Unfortunately, it does not work with those videos that does not provide embed options.

YouTube always quietly scan videos and remove them if necessary. YouTomb is the tool to track which videos are currently scanning or already removed. It will show when it is removed and the view counts. Cick browse and it will show which media companies take down most of the YouTube videos. Currently, WMG requested 3775 videos to be removed. If YouTomb can helped us to watch the videos even it is removed, it would be extremely cool.

YouTube lets you to embed videos in websites with customization of width, colours and more. But there are still something you can modify by editing the code. For instance, when you move your mouse over embedded video, it will show the search box. To hide it, add “&showsearch=0″ in the embedded code. Put it before the “&” of the video URL. Take a look on how to add it after the break.

» Read more: Disable the search bar in embedded YouTube video

Google Latitude is a service that lets you to stalk your friends. It can show where your friends are using an icon on the Google Map. What if your friends at specific place, making a message to show on the map like pictured above? Click here and try to create your own. Enter the message and share the URL. The Google team will start to work and go to specific place. Of course, the Google team does not really help you to create the message by going to different places, there’s a program to put the message in the video. But it looks real and fun.

If you have used Google services except Gmail, but want to create custom profile URL, you can do it now. In the past, you will have a URL with hard to remember numbers. By log it at here, you can create profile URL with personalized name. More easy to remember. Useful for your online resume or personalized start page.

[via Digital inspiration]

If you want your blog visitors to follow you, making an eye catching button is a good choice. Twitter Buttons provides the easy way to do so. Enter your Twitter name in their homepage, scroll down and choose the button you love. Copy the code and paste it in your blog. I love Twitter Buttons it have so many choices for bloggers.

Unless you use desktop clients like TweetDeck or Seesmic, watching updates on Twitter.com requires manually refreshing. You will need to press the refresh button to grab the latest status of your friends. TwitZap turns everything automatically. After logging in using Twitter username and password, you will see an interface similar to Twitter.com. But, you don’t need to do press refresh button since TwitZap will push the latest tweets to you.

Besides pushing updates, TwitZap also provides extra features over Twitter.com. You can upload a file and share it to friends and followers. There is also an icon that lets you to retweet easily. It will also provide the list of online users whenever it’s available.

Retweet feature is extremely useful, but I discovered the number of followers displayed have some problems. I have more than 494 followers already, but TwitZap still shows the old number.