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It's not the world's first infoshooter -- I used to admin linux boxes using the Doom interface to ps. Want to kill a process? Just shoot it! Load a bigger gun to kill -9.

This all reminds me of "It's a UNIX system! I know this!"

I was a child when Jurassic Park came out. I went to get books on UNIX to read. I was left very very disappointed.

Thanks, Spielberg.

If the search results just went to the side I think I would have enjoyed it more. Still fun but with constant break in the action it becomes annoying :/

Cool idea though!

Fun...but I'm not understanding why search results just randomly pop up and block the action? I was thinking that somehow the search results would be the "asteroids" you blow up

Right - that makes it a little less fun that it otherwise might be methinks

This is just what it does: You shoot a result and it will be displayed and be added to your score-list.

(Please mind the parody on stepwise disclosure: Hit once to see the rank, hit twice for the originating host, and finally hit a third time to reveal the abstract and to add this item to your score. So each asteroid has a result item associated to it and you will see results in the order as you shoot them. You may click the scores' title to re-order them by rank.)

Google-Asteroids – Arcade Style Search