As of today, the results count for a search on “tee shirts” is 8,090,000. Make that search more specific — say, for “glow-in-the-dark tee shirts” — and the numbers narrow to 682,000. Make it really specific — “neon pterodactyl Christmas tee shirt” — and it shrinks to around 200. In other words, if you have five days to find the perfect tee, then don't worry, you'll find it.

Early this month, a site launched that hopes to consolidate, organize and energize that process, and with the team behind it, there's a good chance that it will.

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I’d like to direct your attention to the newly launched Eco Seek: a user-populated search engine “for all things green.” While it doesn’t go as far as Greendeavor in terms of depth and user involvement, with a points system to incentivize green shopping — I think it may serve a purpose as a simple, straight-forward, and broad based green products search engine. It’s also going to be a good place — once it gets more ‘user populated’ — to find links, articles, and tips “for all things green.” So all of you who use great green products, go submit your finds to Eco Seek and help them become a thorough, useful, and effective place to find earth-friendly products.

The word “Amaznode” doesn’t drip with fun, does it? In fact, it sounds a lot like a little bug that eats up your garden, or maybe even a wierd growth that ruins the careers of opera singers. It certainly doesn’t sound like what it actually is: an “Amazon related product search” (okay, also dreary, but hold on), that lets you type in any word, then creates a web of Amazon products that are in some way related to that word. The process is similar to what Amazon does when it recommends products for its users, except instead of basing the search on prior purchases (which could have been gifts for very boring people, thereby throwing off the whole system), Amaznode bases the search off of any one keyword. Say, for instance, that you’ve suddenly developed an unquenchable interest in cupcakes. Type that word into Amaznode, and soon you’ll get an entire web of cupcake offshoots from cookbooks to cupcake-themed murder-mysteries (juicy!). The coolest thing about this method of searching is that absolutely everything is right in front of you in picture form; if you swipe your mouse over any of the little boxes, the picture grows, and if you click it, the picture gets even bigger– and provides a click through to buy it from Amazon. What an easy new way to do research (or feed obsessions). Amazing– I’m sold.

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