Highena

The Pisstakers were so taken by this site (and our own rather flattering review of them) that they featured Highena on their “Spring Widget Saturday”.

Cheers guys.

Here’s a selection of funny town names from a long list at Dribbleglass.

Gofuku (Japan)

Three Cocks (Wales)

Dickeyville (Wisconsin, USA)

Beaverville (Illinois, USA)

Little Dix Village (West Indies)

Tightsqueeze (Virginia, USA)

Big Knockerstown (United Kingdom)

Climax Springs (Missouri, USA)

Glasscock (Texas, USA)

Seman (Alabama, USA)

Long Dong (Guangxi, China)

Titless (Switzerland)

Onacock (Virginia, USA)

Maiden Gully (Australia)

Penistone (England)

Fort Dick (California, USA)

Gash (Iran)

Probe (Utah, USA)

Butztown (Pennsylvania, USA)

Thong (England)

Mary’s Inlet (Canada)

Hard to believe some of these are real. I would love to hear from anybody living in any of these towns. And for anybody from Big Knockerstown please email me the directions.

With a name like The Pisstakers I knew this site had to be worth a look, and I certainly wasn’t disappointed.

About The Pisstakers:

A selection of features, ideas, links and stuff that we have started and still maintain, or started and abandoned or just started and may still abandon. Bookmark them for posterity, just in case.

The Pisstakers is a quirky look at the web and news, with blogs, pics and videos.

I had dabbled with the idea of having funny quotes on this site, and The Pisstakers have done this brilliantly with their Quote of the day.

Definitely worth a bookmark this one.

They seemed to have now settled on the name Aftervote, as apposed to Younanimous, which I think is a much better name. Having just had a little play with this new search engine, I have to say I like it.

Aftervote takes all the listings from Google, Yahoo and MSN, crunches them up and puts the most relevant sites at the top of their listings.

How does this work? I’ll let them explain.

You do a search for “Social Search Engine” and you click the first result. It’s not what you were looking for at all, and is therefore not a useful result for your query. You press the back button and try result #2. Voila! You found exactly what you are looking for. But it’s more than that. AfterVote(Younanimous) is analyzing these results and has cast a vote for you automatically, saying that result #1 wasn’t what you wanted, but #2 was. If you do however find a awesome site, you can manually vote for it as well.

Like Google, they have an image search, and also a video search.

Another cool feature is that they provide information on each site by Alexa ranking, Google pagerank, Compete, domain age and much more.

You can also tweak the search results to your own liking. If you think Alexa is a good stats programme for sites you can have your searches go by Alexa, or Pagerank, or if domain age is more relevant to you, and so on.

Here’s the full list that you can customise into your searches:

Alexa
Page Rank
Stumble Upon
Compete
Digg
del.icio.us
FURL
Reddit
Yahoo! MyWeb
Email result
AIM Message
Yahoo! Msngr
TinyURL
Translate
Whois
Netcraft
bugmenot
Archive.org
Technorati
Blogger Links

You can turn any of these on/off at any time, and they should be adding to them soon.
I often find myself keeping Alexa open in a browser when I’m looking at new sites, so this is a great tool to have.

I hope Aftervote takes off once it gets out of beta, because on paper it looks like a really good idea. Namely, taking all the irrelevant crap out of searches.

Caring and sensitive gent with GSOH, looking for soulmate. Looks not important.