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· Which new class was added in Diablo II: Lord of Destruction?

· Which unit belongs to the Protoss from StarCraft?

· King Terenas was the ruler of which kingdom in Warcraft?

· In what patch was the Voice Chat feature added to World of Warcraft?

· Which of the following games does NOT use the Battle.net service?

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I’m just a decent person trying to do some research with google almighty search and they have to confront me with such terrifying messages. No virus found on my system!

Wanna terrify your relatives?

lure them to	http://www.google.com/sorry/
don’t try	http://www.google.com/story/
or	http://www.google.com/scary/
or	http://www.google.com/horror/

english version of google sorry

I encourage my readers to make a screenshot of google sorry in their language, blog about it and send me a trackback or comment or whatever …

Is there one program or online service in the world where you can search for functions or filter menu items? It is very painful if you try to find a function and you aren’t sure where it is “hidden” in the whole menu structure.

Some big companies made efforts and did a really good job to arrange the menu items in a very useable way.

For example:

MS Excel 2007

MS Excel and almost every new Microsoft Office product have this new ribbon structured menu which improves usability and navigation. Anyway there are hundreds of functions you will never find without a good “search for functions” button. Well you could search in the manual. Everybody likes manuals…

Google Analytics

Google Analytics has about 50 menu items in the main menu. Well structured but still painful to find the right report if you aren’t sure where the relevant menu item is.

Ok, you are an expert in Google Analytics and can find the right way through the menu in seconds. Wouldn’t it still be nice to have a filter that blends out the irrelevant menu items, so you can concentrate on the 2-3 items you really need?

Guess who has just received the activation codes for SPSS 15 and Clementine 11.1 with the Textmining for Clementine module. What? You don’t know who or what Clementine is? Check out the latest poll about the most popular data mining tools.

By the way the picture in the header of this blog is made of Clementine Icons, where each icon represents a function or algorithm that you can use to analyse your data.

I’m looking forward to find out what Textmining for Clementine is capable to do for analysis in Competitive Intelligence, SEO and Webmining in general.