Forget “Jeeves”, it is time to ask the hottest search engine ever, Ms Dewey what you’re looking for.

She may be nothing more than a skin of flash videos streaming one after another on top of a Live.com search engine, but it is a “little” interactive. If you just leave the site running and not search for anything, Ms Dewey will get sad, frustrated, or start playing with her day planner. It is a cute idea, and if they can get a few more quick down-blouse shots, this could very well be the engine to topple Google.

Many people come to Google.com to navigate the web, but are you aware that you can use it to navigate the real world as well? Over the past few months, we’ve been hard at work making it easier to find and compare local businesses and services right from the standard web results page

From now on, you’ll see this every time you search for a place, business, or other local information. In addition to providing the basic contact information and map locations for several choices at the top of the page, we also show ratings and provide one-click access to reviews on the search results page so that you can make more informed decisions about where you want to go.

Here are a few specific examples of how you can use Google to search and compare local businesses and services.

Find the location of and driving directions to the Googleplex (or any specific address).
Find and compare Mexican restaurants in Pasadena, CA
Get directions to and read reviews about a local eatery in Pittsburgh.
Find movie showtimes for films that are playing in your neighborhood.
We’re really excited to offer this easier access to qualitative information about local spots. We find the reviews and ratings generated by others in the know to be quite useful when we want to head to a restaurant, catch a movie, or stay at a hotel — and we hope you will too.

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Many of us aren’t lucky enough to experience one of nature’s most glorious sights—the beauty of the sunrise—every day, let alone on demand. That is, until today. Now there’s a Google Earth layer that brings the sun’s ascent right to your computer screen, and Google Earth aficionados can also see video vignettes drawn from Discovery HD Theater’s “Sunrise Earth” program.

To view the videos, open Google Earth and select the Sunrise Earth layer under Discovery Networks. Follow the links in the pop-up window to experience the sights and sounds of one of nature’s most beautiful phenomena. Watch dawn rise over Stonehenge, Mayan pyramids, and Buddhist temples as it has for thousands of years. See the Katmai Bears emerge from their seven-month slumber to greet a new day. Witness the sun’s light bringing life to natural habitats around the world, from the forests of Costa Rica and the coast of New England, to the foothills of Turkey and the glaciers of Alaska.

Whether you catch Sunrise Earth on Discovery HD Theater or via Google Earth, you’ll see the world in a whole new light.

Winzy is a beta testing search engine that allows its users to win prizes like money or video game systems just for using the website. There are a few catches, at least that I see. You’ll need to open an account, and it appears that you need to download their toolbar (who knows what is attached to it). Still, what is a little unknown downloading when the result could be a brand new Wii or Xbox 360!

For the adventurous types, try your luck here.

Microsoft has set up a Click 4 The Cause, a search engine based on their live.com site. Microsoft will donate a portion of the proceeds it generates from the search engine to NineMillion.org, a non-profit group that aids refugee children around with world.

Microsoft will donate a minimum of $100,000 to the organization, and hope to bring further awareness to the charity, while at the same time promoting their own search engine in hopes of getting out of Google’s shadow. The specially made search engine will be active until March 31st.

Search Engine War is a very small website with probably little to no influence over anything, but they do have a nifty one question search engine preference poll with both US and Russian websites, and is in both English and Russian. The Cold War is over! Let the Search Engine War begin.

According to the Associated Press and Yahoo New, Google will be building a $600 Million data center in North Carolina, that will employ 200+ people in an area hit hard by the loss of textile and furniture jobs.

In return, the state will be giving Google $4.8 million, which is part of a larger $100 million incentive package. Gov. Mike Easley states “this company will provide hundreds of good-paying, knowledge-based jobs that North Carolinas citizens want,” in regards to the near-future project.

It has been around for a while, but the Optimal Title plugin is still a great tool to add to your blog.

What the plug in does is set the name of your blog post before the blog’s name. Your blog post will most likely have keyword content that will be picked up by the search engine’s, and blast your post ahead of the competition.

From Google’s Official Blog:

At Google, we get excited about making all kinds of information accessible to everyone. The more up-to-date the information, the more valuable it is. This is particularly true in the world of finance; information, and timing of that information, is money. Today, real-time quotes are not freely and easily available on the web. Some websites offer one real-time quote at a time, but typically only after you have enrolled in a service and/or signed a complicated legal agreement. Other sites approach the problem differently and show you streaming delayed data, but that doesn’t solve the problem either — it masks it. What’s really important is getting free, easy and fast access to real-time quotes so you know how the market or your company is doing now, not as of twenty minutes ago.

As a result, we’ve worked with the SEC, the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and our D.C. trade association, NetCoalition, to find a way to bring stock data to Google users in a way that benefits users and is practical for all parties. We have encouraged the SEC to ensure that this data can be made available to our users at fair and reasonable rates, and applaud their recent efforts to review this issue. Today, the NYSE has moved the issue a great step forward with a proposal to the SEC which if approved, would allow you to see real-time, last-sale prices across all Google properties including Google Finance, Personalized Google, Mobile, and of course, Google.com. It won’t matter if you’re on Wall Street or Main Street — you’ll have free, easy and fast access to real-time prices from NYSE on Google.

So stay tuned on our progress with this. We’re excited that financial data as we know it is about to change. In the meantime, set up your portfolio on Google Finance today.

Through Google’s Co-op beta program a search engine that is limited to Wordpress Resources has been set up to make it easier to search for blogs and blog tools.