Dan Gillmor points us to Soople, a search tool which seems destined to wear out its 1000-search-a-day API limit over at Google. The engine rides on top of Google and makes that engine’s advanced features easier to use.
From the About page: (Soople is) a site that softens all the fantastic (advanced) functions Google offers. Initially I made this site for my mother, who, though computer-savvy, still didn’t know about all the possibilities Google offers.
I think you meant to link to http://www.soople.com/, not
http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1107_2-5155916.html.
Here’s another Google tool fun site:
http://www.freshgoo.com
It doesn’t look like it’s using the API, just using cutomised easy to use forms with the appropriate tags to get google to do the correct type of search.