I've finally got around to fixing the Chaucery's broken Search Collator, a tool for finding crowd-sourced descriptions of a given topic. It works best when the question is most specific, such as about a particular person or object, such as "Brad Pitt" or a banana, though even then it's not a patch on Wikipedia.
The Collator was originally written in 2006 using Google's SOAP API. However, this was never well supported, and always ran slowly or not at all. I had to code a retry mechanism just to make the page occasionally work. Anyway, Google finally killed the API in August. Luckily, they have provided a much better replacement, the AJAX Search API. It is fast, it works, and is much easier to code against than SOAP. The rewritten Collator is now available. It's still not very useful, but at least it works!