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miladus writes "Roogle is a new RSS Search Engine. Let us
hope it does not get in trouble because of its name." Or its horrible logo. The site needs a little work, but it seems like a good enough idea. update their obviously infringing logo was removed.
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Today (a day after the original post) it has a new logo, not the "Google logo with R superimposed" original one. Now he's had his 15 minutes, maybe he will capitalise on it to actually do something.
"The site needs a little work, but it seems like a good enough idea."
A good idea ? To rip off Google ?
From the site: This page is not sponsored by Google, affiliated with Google and will probably get me in trouble.
Sorry, but just getting the Google logo and crudely crossing out the G to replace with an R is a bit lame.
Not impressed.
They have blatently copied the Google look and feel, something which is probably illegal, and certainly annoying.
They have blatently copied the Google look and feel
This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista [altavista.com] lately? Yes, the king of annoying pop-up-pop-under-blinking-shit-distract-me-in-any- way-possible-steal-my-bandwidth-animated-gifs-and- flash-crap has adopted another look & fell. And guess whom they got "inspired" of... And then we have all the other wannabe-Google-copycats out there. Well, let's see it from the positive side: Clean is beautiful, once again. Good for us users.
Yeah, but this isn't just "spartan"...they have a very similar name, *exactly* the same colors, the same lalyout...
I'd have to say that the "Roogle" thing is pretty much a case where confusion could be caused. There's a lot of complaining about IP on Slashdot, but this is a case where it should be helpful. The Roogle people should really change things.
The "Roogle" people themselves note that the name is temporary, right on the site. While they are clearly combining RSS and Google, which just happens to be descriptive of what they are and do, they also know that they need their own name.
One might also wonder how many "looks and feels" are going to be allowed to be propriatary for a single input box, a single button and a bit of black text on a white background.
Clearly the name "Roogle" has some trademark issues, and clearly the site realizes this as well, as I have already stated. They will have to deal with this, and probably fairly quickly.
I know that. Obviously.
But here are some other things I know.
Google is a trademark of Columbia Pictures and King Features Syndicate and has been since the 1930's.
The name of the search engine comes from ( as opposed to the common assumption/claim that it's a spelling variant of "googol") the slang phrase "Google eyes" ( and its variant "Googly Eyes"). Google eyes was slang for either promimenent eyes, or eyes "bugged out." In other words it is a humorous variant of "goggle." Barney Google had such eyes. See how it all comes together?
One would "make google eyes" at a pretty girl.
Google is thus a very good word for a search engine name.
Please note how Google(tm) itself aknowledges this in a lefthanded way by now claiming "Google Eyes" as well. Google on it.
The Google logo is a blatent rip off of the trademarked Playschool logo, and clearly intended to be, in the current mode of assuming that computer items will be "friendlier" if they appear to be aimed at drooling two year olds.
The blue color used on the Google page is what is known as "IBM Blue" and was the trademarked "look and feel" of IBM software and products. ( And Microsoft took advantage of their position of supplier to IBM to rip it off). IBM word processing programs, for instance, had white text on that exact shade of blue background. (As did Infocom games and some other third party apps intended for the IBM PC).
You are absolutely right, and people who violate trademarks, look and feel are scum and should be publicly flogged.
Indeed, both Altavista and Excite started with clean interfaces long before Google hit the scene and "invented" it, though you couldn't convince the Googolians of that: They're too busy praying to their Google gods.
P.S. Google is truly a great site, and the number 1 search engine by far right now, but it is fascinating to see the Google love.
1223 microsoft
771 farter
635 undulating_nigger
564 lindows
540 poopsex vagina donkey acidic_diarrhea
454 godfuckingdamnit
444 linux
406 sex
398 Where can I buy I mini-moocow at low cost?
326 roogle
My theory is that a bunch of people want to have sex with a mini-moocow that has acidic_diarrhea
...but the name and logo absolutely need to be changed. Google has gone after sites using their likeness in the past (not that they have much choice, they've got to do this otherwise they may lose protection).
Roogle as it stands is actually pretty functional. It's also extremely fast, especially considering it just got posted to Slashdot. FYI: "privacy [fuzzygroup.com]" is another term which yields interesting results and is not listed among their suggestions. Oddly enough, the first match is entitled "Google's Privacy Problems."
You've got to be kidding. One of the pages (it's/.ed now or I would give you the link) says they have about 2000 RSS entries sitting in their database.
Functional? I didn't see any highlighting. Did you try any basic boolean searches? Any clustering of results? 2000 entries is not enough to even test for that.
It was only a temporary logo, and seems only to be a temporary name. You can't expect the same people who come up with a working RSS search engine to simultaneously come up with a good name for it. For that matter, somebody entirely different already owns roogle.com.
I'd like to search not the articles available on asundry Blogs but to see what domains of coverage RSS feeds propose to cover. What I really want is an aggregator of medical industry news, but the concept applies to any domain of information.
A different tack, but maybe an RDF search engine is the ticket. But where to get the RDF? Will people who create the metadata be willing to share it? Will enough people create the metadata in the first place?
Actually, it won't get to that. They have apparently already taken down the logo and are referring to themselves as the "search engine briefly known as roogle".
Why would one intentially seek to raise the hackles of the Google Lawyers? If one has a new search engine that has different algorithms or some unique features that will help it become a standard in the industry, then why rip off the masthead logo of the current indusrty leader and BEG for the cease and desist letter to arrive in the morning mail?
Can they be mounting a serious effort or is it April Fool's Day already?
Well it will certainly get them a lot of publicity, and probably at least another/. article or two along the lines of "Google forces Roogle name and/or logo change". So even if they're forced to change their identity later, they still get far more publicity than if they simply launched with a more innocuous name in the first place.
Why would one intentially seek to raise the hackles of the Google Lawyers?
That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer [userland.com]. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer [userland.com]. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
The other option is that he may have filed a patten on it, and is useing this as a way to insure google or another search engine doesn't pick up on his idea without paying him for it. A demand letter from google proves they know about him and the service.
Perhaps they want Google to buy them. It's not a horrible idea - they come up with a good idea, they implement it, they even have a Google-ish name, so Google buys it off of them.
Of course this is the way technology has headed with Microsoft (people do stuff just to have MS buy it), and it's killing innovation.
And of course Google would probably do something like this in-house, with their own people and coding practices. I think the best these guys could hope for is one of those "polite" cease-and-desist letters.
Perhaps they want Google to buy them. It's not a horrible idea - they come up with a good idea, they implement it, they even have a Google-ish name, so Google buys it off of them.
I don't necessarily agree with this - it seems to me that Google has more to lose than to gain if they were to buy it. If people are finding and implementing their own RSS from the site, they're at least, in part, damaging the usefulness of news.google.com. Just my two cents.
Thats an interesting thought. Instead of having to make them shut down, you offer to buy them up. Is Google becoming as powerful as Microsoft (or has it already happened?)
Is Google becoming as powerful as Microsoft (or has it already happened?)
I think its happened already...
I mean there actually are viable (better!) alternatives to using MS software in nearly all cases, well appart from Powerpoint. There really isn't a decent alternative to Google.
What department? I guess I'm the only one who reads those things. Between that and the extremely short story it seems taco put as much thought into this as, well Roogle.
How ironic.
Judging by the fact that they have made a CC of the Google look and logo (with the the G crossed-out), I am sure that they are wanting to get Google's attention, and everyone else's while they are at it. They are probably hoping that enough people will make enough noise that Google will encorporate what they feel is a great tool into Google.
Admittedly it is not the best approach, but if it ends up working, well why not?
That idea does sound reasonable. I think it would be trivial for Google to incorporate an RSS searcher into their bag of tricks. All they would have to do is add another boolean behind the scenes that indicates whether a page is RSS, and then give a front end to that boolean, and they are done. Both of those actions seem simple to me. The end result would be that people could search for other websites to syndicate.
I will be amazed if these guys don't get taken down by Google. I mean part of the idea of trademark is to avoid brandname confusion and it took me a few seconds to make sure that this site wasn't affiliated with google. The hacked google logo and the very similar interface didn't help either. True the same arguments might be made for Windows and Lindows, prehaps the reason I never got those confused is that I'm very aware that is something M$ would never do. Either way I except these guys to be getting some strong words from google.
Hehe, I'm surprised he didn't link his CV from that page... That looks like a desperate attempt to get a job at Google to me...:-)
I mean, with the recent moves in the direction of blogs at Google, they might just be thinking that "if we make an RSS search engine, we may get a good job at Google". But then, Google may not notice... But now they will...:-) It's pretty clever, actually.
It's going to be funny to see that cease&desist...
I think it is also very different from the Lindows issue, given that windows is a rather common word, Google isn't...
I don't think this site has any such Grand Ambition as taking on Google (or even selling out to them). The logo isn't the only thing kinda on the 1/2-ass side. How many Blogs are indexed? 594 as of this posting (Who we Are tab on roogle).
Why this guy isn't using publicly (freely!) available info on published, syndicated blog content is anyone's guess. Mine is that they ain't too serious. "farter" is still holding up above "Microsoft" as the number one search term. Go "farter!"
These guys [fuzzygroup.com] are meant to be seasoned pros in product management, project managemement and marketing, but they don't see a problem with what they have done??
If I was a client of theirs, I would be rather worried.
Now, if they do have a half a clue, isn't this a great way to get some eyeballs?
I mean not everyone actually plans for what they do to go somewhere. Maybe they were just tinkerin around a bit and thought it'd be funny to use Google's layout for a temp setup?
This one here [koogle.net] can actually rely on an existing word "koogle". And besides that, it's kosher!
Koogle.net was promoted by the newsletter of the Israeli Embassy in Germany. When I last checked, it had changed its layout to alienize it from google (slightly).
Yeah, and what about XGoogle [xgoogle.com], which does IRC channel searches? I've always wondered how they've gotten away with that name. The site is different, but they're definitely building off of Google's success. Interesting how the word "Google" is really becoming a synonym for "search".
It's not really a parody. They're providing a real service, akin to Google's service, and it's not done to poke fun at Google, but instead competes with Google. There's really nothing about this that could be considered a parody...
As long as he's not making a profit, he can make it as usful as he wants. And while you're there, perhaps you should look up the dictionary deffinition aswell. Maybe you have a very narrow deffinition of what a parody is.
Ah yes, that sounds a bit more correct. Think I got a bit confused, because a lot of parodies infringe on trademarks. But of course, you can still infringe of a trademark if it's for parody, and doesn't make a profit. Unless I have just confused myself evern more.
In other news... Google announces a new patent: Wherein Google shows that they pioneered a technology using funny-sounding nonsense words as a company name, website, and a verb. Seriously, corporations can be pretty heavy-handed and seem to forget that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery. Unfortunately, in the technology world imitation is also the most likely to get you a threatening letter.
That's because when you become aware of a trademark infringement, if you don't defend against it you lose your trademark. I'm sure Google doesn't really want to go after these sites, but to make sure that Google remains their trademark and not public domain, they're required to order these types of sites to cease and desist.
Ive noticed that Goodle.com have registered Gooogle.com and also setup ww.google.com sub domain to catch miss types.. now with roogle on the table... its gonna be pot luck soon what search engine you hit, no problem as long as there all good;)
Obviously they know that Google's going to come gunning for them, it's the entire point of the site. They don't care if Roogle lives or dies, really. They just wanted to show off their skills, and do so in a way that is sure to garner public attention.
Well mission accomplished. The odds of some of these guys finding employement as a direct result of this stunt are very good.
Since the sites doesn't appear to actually do *anything*, what kind of skills are they showing off? That they can make a web page with broken Javascript with a textbox in a form that once you click "submit" returns a page with random links? Somehow, I don't see how this is likely to garner anybody a paid job.
C'mon, people- this was done properly in the original message, then messed up one line down.
'it's' means 'it is'.
the possesive version, such as 'its horrible logo' or 'its name' is spelled 'its'.
Just learn the darned language!
Within 10 mnutes of going to roogle, they've changed their logo to 'New Logo Needed! (the search engine breify known as roogle' and moving you cursor over the image syas 'Roogle, an RSS Search engine for Blogs'They've also added a link to roogle blog and a new note 'NOTE This was done as a research prototype to gauge interest. Clearly there is interest. Now that I know that, it'll get a lot better. The search index is by no means comprehensive and the search logic is being fine tuned. True full text search will be available either later today or tomorrow.' Truely Bizarre
OK, I've looked and I've looked, but this thing isn't going to go anywhere if nobody knows what the hell it is, or what it's suposed to do. I see that it's got something vaguely to do with XML, but other than that, I can't figure out what the hell it's searching, how, or what it's returning. This is one of the most useless web sites that I've visited in a while. Thanks,/.!
Why should we hope their name doesn't get them in trouble? Google did a lot of work to develop a stellar reputation and have done a lot of other projects with that Xoogles, like Froogle, etc. And they did this all starting from scratch, not trying to jump on anyone else's work.
And some clowns suddenly appear and try to co-op google's reputation and cash in on the high name recognition they deserve? I am not sure if it's illegal, but that doesn't make it OK; what it makes it is pathetic.
Google has been very forceful and a little overzealous with their trademark attacks and threats. After over two years of owning Gewgle.com [gewgle.com] they are just now sending legally threatening letters [gewgle.com].
Is Google about to have an IPO or something? It seems like they have changed so much in the last couple months...
I post a comment about gewgle whenever a story comes up relating to Google and the possibility of legal threats come up in conversation. I did not post a comment about gewgle in the last Google topic, dealing with Google Hacks, because it is not relevant.
UDRP and ACPA are not examples, but food for thought.
Look, if you want to get technical about it, gewgle.com was not asking for the CC number, or the expiration date, or the 3 digit security code. If someone went there and just didn't get the fact that it was a joke, they would have sent me a message that read something like 'Yes, I have a credit card and 5 minutes.'
Seriously.. here's a standard that's evolved quickly and without a bunch of bitching between various factions (at least not that I'm aware of).
Yet, you have these enormous industry groups still haggling over the structure of XML docs tailored to their sector. Purchase orders, precription medication.. you name it - the pace of adoption has been terrible.
Looking way down on their blog you see that Roolge is a temporary name. There is no motive for a Google buyout and they realize the name will not last. Check it out:
blog entry [fuzzygroup.com]
Works really well for blog RSS outputs! As long as you just want the raw content this is a very nice way to browse blogs in OS X.
Thanks,
BTW is there source available? I keep finding nifty 3rd party Sherlock plugins but I'm always worried that I'll become dependent and one day it just won't be there anymore (happened to me with a 'weather' plugin once).
BTW is there source available? I keep finding nifty 3rd party Sherlock plugins but I'm always worried that I'll become dependent and one day it just won't be there anymore (happened to me with a 'weather' plugin once).
When I'm done with the combobox stuff (including a way to remove typos from the combobox query cache) and I can go thru the IB files to see that they don't betray my personal settings enough, I'd be happy to.. It's essentially a nib and 2-3 key XML files.. I'd say probably sometime between
We warn the reader in advance that the proof presented here depends on a
clever but highly unmotivated trick.
-- Howard Anton, "Elementary Linear Algebra"
Nice work :( (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:2)
Or due to a severe slashdotting...
(Took over a minute to load!)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:2)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:2)
A good idea ? (Score:2, Informative)
A good idea ? To rip off Google ? From the site
This page is not sponsored by Google, affiliated with Google and will probably get me in trouble.
Yuk (Score:4, Insightful)
Google look & feel (Score:5, Interesting)
This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista [altavista.com] lately? Yes, the king of annoying pop-up-pop-under-blinking-shit-distract-me-in-any
Google all the way ! (Score:4, Funny)
No ! Did I miss anything......?
Re:Google look & feel (Score:2)
I'd have to say that the "Roogle" thing is pretty much a case where confusion could be caused. There's a lot of complaining about IP on Slashdot, but this is a case where it should be helpful. The Roogle people should really change things.
Re:Google look & feel (Score:2)
One might also wonder how many "looks and feels" are going to be allowed to be propriatary for a single input box, a single button and a bit of black text on a white background.
Down that road lies madness.
KFG
Feelings. Nothing more than feelings. (Score:3, Informative)
Clearly the name "Roogle" has some trademark issues, and clearly the site realizes this as well, as I have already stated. They will have to deal with this, and probably fairly quickly.
I know that. Obviously.
But here are some other things I know.
Google is a trademark of Columbia Pictures and King Features Syndicate and has been since the 1930's.
The name of the search engine comes from ( as opposed to the common assumption/claim that it's a spelling variant of "googol") the slang phrase "Google eyes" ( and its variant "Googly Eyes"). Google eyes was slang for either promimenent eyes, or eyes "bugged out." In other words it is a humorous variant of "goggle." Barney Google had such eyes. See how it all comes together?
One would "make google eyes" at a pretty girl.
Google is thus a very good word for a search engine name.
Please note how Google(tm) itself aknowledges this in a lefthanded way by now claiming "Google Eyes" as well. Google on it.
The Google logo is a blatent rip off of the trademarked Playschool logo, and clearly intended to be, in the current mode of assuming that computer items will be "friendlier" if they appear to be aimed at drooling two year olds.
The blue color used on the Google page is what is known as "IBM Blue" and was the trademarked "look and feel" of IBM software and products. ( And Microsoft took advantage of their position of supplier to IBM to rip it off). IBM word processing programs, for instance, had white text on that exact shade of blue background. (As did Infocom games and some other third party apps intended for the IBM PC).
You are absolutely right, and people who violate trademarks, look and feel are scum and should be publicly flogged.
KFG
Re:Google look & feel (Score:2, Interesting)
P.S. Google is truly a great site, and the number 1 search engine by far right now, but it is fascinating to see the Google love.
Read the site (Score:2)
Under "who we are": "The final name is clearly very unlikely to be Roogle. I'm in the process of "de-rooglizing" the look and feel presently."
Hoho (Score:2, Funny)
Farter? (Score:5, Funny)
What kind of sicko has been testing this engine?
Re:Farter? (Score:1)
"poopsex vagina donkey acidic_diarrhea"
methinks the creator of this page has more problems than a probable lawsuit from google
Re:Farter? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Farter? (Score:2)
1223 microsoft
771 farter
635 undulating_nigger
564 lindows
540 poopsex vagina donkey acidic_diarrhea
454 godfuckingdamnit
444 linux
406 sex
398 Where can I buy I mini-moocow at low cost?
326 roogle
My theory is that a bunch of people want to have sex with a mini-moocow that has acidic_diarrhea
This is a great idea... (Score:5, Interesting)
Roogle as it stands is actually pretty functional. It's also extremely fast, especially considering it just got posted to Slashdot. FYI: "privacy [fuzzygroup.com]" is another term which yields interesting results and is not listed among their suggestions. Oddly enough, the first match is entitled "Google's Privacy Problems."
It's fast??? (Score:2)
Functional? I didn't see any highlighting. Did you try any basic boolean searches? Any clustering of results? 2000 entries is not enough to even test for that.
Already underway.. (Score:1)
Re:This is a great idea... (Score:2)
How about RSS domain searches? (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:How about RSS domain searches? (Score:2)
I'm opening a book..... (Score:2)
On how long it is before Google slaps a trademark infringement on them and the site is taken down....
Anyone fancy a bet?
Sure, why not... (Score:2)
Re:I'm opening a book..... (Score:2)
Roogle is just ASKING for trouble... (Score:2, Insightful)
Can they be mounting a serious effort or is it April Fool's Day already?
Re:Roogle is just ASKING for trouble... (Score:1)
wonder if google lawyers... (Score:2)
Oh that's an easy question to answer... (Score:1)
That's an easy one to answer. Roogle is based on RSS, which comes from the XMLRPC 'designer', Dave Winer [userland.com]. Dave loves to draw attention to himself like a whore at a convention in Vegas... He *knows* he'll get shut down, but what he's *hoping* for is that Google (or someone) will pick up on his Roogle idea.
Re:Oh that's an easy question to answer... (Score:2, Interesting)
The other option is that he may have filed a patten on it, and is useing this as a way to insure google or another search engine doesn't pick up on his idea without paying him for it. A demand letter from google proves they know about him and the service.
Re:Roogle is just ASKING for trouble... (Score:1)
I always thought that Google was a panacea place staffed by altruistic ex dot com millionaires searching for The Truth.
Oh well, another trusted institution bites the dust.
Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course this is the way technology has headed with Microsoft (people do stuff just to have MS buy it), and it's killing innovation.
And of course Google would probably do something like this in-house, with their own people and coding practices. I think the best these guys could hope for is one of those "polite" cease-and-desist letters.
Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:5, Insightful)
I don't necessarily agree with this - it seems to me that Google has more to lose than to gain if they were to buy it. If people are finding and implementing their own RSS from the site, they're at least, in part, damaging the usefulness of news.google.com. Just my two cents.
Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:1)
Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:3, Interesting)
Is Google becoming as powerful as Microsoft (or has it already happened?)
I think its happened already...
I mean there actually are viable (better!) alternatives to using MS software in nearly all cases, well appart from Powerpoint. There really isn't a decent alternative to Google.
Al.Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. (Score:2)
CmdrTaco, is that you? (Score:2, Interesting)
This [slashdot.org] CmdrTaco Journal entry, just a couple weeks ago, disagrees.
the dept. ? (Score:1)
How ironic.
lol @ search queries: (Score:1)
Probably trying to get Google's attention (Score:4, Insightful)
Admittedly it is not the best approach, but if it ends up working, well why not?
Re:Probably trying to get Google's attention (Score:2)
I want my flying car... (Score:5, Funny)
George: Everyone already knows about Google, Astro.
Astro: Not Roogle, ROOGLE!
George: Shut up you stupid mutt.
Google is pretty cool but... (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Google is pretty cool but... (Score:2)
I mean, with the recent moves in the direction of blogs at Google, they might just be thinking that "if we make an RSS search engine, we may get a good job at Google". But then, Google may not notice... But now they will... :-) It's pretty clever, actually.
It's going to be funny to see that cease&desist...
I think it is also very different from the Lindows issue, given that windows is a rather common word, Google isn't...
Re:Google is pretty cool but... (Score:2)
ok. i'll admit, i was quite astonished to see google returning HTTP 500 status codes.
No such grand ambitions... (Score:2)
Must be joking... (Score:2)
These guys [fuzzygroup.com] are meant to be seasoned pros in product management, project managemement and marketing, but they don't see a problem with what they have done??
If I was a client of theirs, I would be rather worried.
Now, if they do have a half a clue, isn't this a great way to get some eyeballs?
Maybe they are just trying to fool around? (Score:1)
Another *oogle Search Engine (Score:2, Interesting)
Koogle.net was promoted by the newsletter of the Israeli Embassy in Germany. When I last checked, it had changed its layout to alienize it from google (slightly).
Have fun,
Mathias
Re:Another *oogle Search Engine (Score:3, Informative)
doesn't really work (Score:1)
Nice Disclaimer (Score:2, Funny)
Atleast he's aware he's going to get the anal raping of the century by Google.
Anyone... (Score:1)
I quit.
/. -ed (Score:2, Redundant)
If they can be slashdotted this easily, well... they need to think a little harder about their setup.
Re:/. -ed (Score:1)
Oddly enough, Google seems to be offline... (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:Oddly enough, Google seems to be offline... (Score:2)
Looks legal to me (Score:2, Interesting)
Look up Parody in the dictionary, please. (Score:3, Informative)
Look up the legality, please. (Score:2)
Re:Look up the legality, please. (Score:2)
In other news (Score:1)
Re:In other news (Score:2)
Excellent! (Score:1)
600-lb Gorilla (Score:2)
"In the end, there can only be one."
Roogle, Google, Gooogle... (Score:2, Informative)
Google's Scooby Doo Edition! (Score:1)
Shaggy: Like, as soon as I finish this sandwich, Scooby.
Their intent is obvious: (Score:2)
Obviously they know that Google's going to come gunning for them, it's the entire point of the site. They don't care if Roogle lives or dies, really. They just wanted to show off their skills, and do so in a way that is sure to garner public attention.
Well mission accomplished. The odds of some of these guys finding employement as a direct result of this stunt are very good.
What skills? (Score:1)
google is being DDoS'ed (Score:1)
--- www.google.com ping statistics ---
1000 packets transmitted, 838 packets received, 16% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 92.917/94.189/101.547/1.128 ms
it's "its"! (Score:4, Informative)
Name Changed Already!!! (Score:1, Informative)
New Logo Needed !
(the search engine briefly known as 'roogle')
lololol
From their blog.... (Score:2, Funny)
Ack! Foo! Run in circles, scream and shout!
Perhaps we won't have to worry about what google will do to them, perhaps the sheer force of a /.ing will do the trick
Roogle Logo (Score:1)
This was done as a research prototype to gauge interest. Clearly there is interest. Now that I know that, it'll get a lot better. The search index is by no means comprehensive and the search logic is being fine tuned. True full text search will be available either later today or tomorrow.'
Truely Bizarre
Re:Roogle Logo (Score:2)
At least he's got a sense of humor about it. Now let's see if that helps any. Doubtful.
What the hell is it? (Score:2)
Excellent (Score:1)
Rip-off (Score:3, Insightful)
And some clowns suddenly appear and try to co-op google's reputation and cash in on the high name recognition they deserve? I am not sure if it's illegal, but that doesn't make it OK; what it makes it is pathetic.
What's the big deal? (Score:5, Informative)
Plus there are tons of news aggregators that already exist and have huge indicies of rss sources [disobey.com].
Conclusion:
In other words:
1. Create web site - which doesn't do anything useful but has a name that rips off Google.
2. ???
3. Lawsuit!
Re:What's the big deal? (Score:3, Informative)
Want to add your /. jounral to Roogle? (Score:2)
burn karma burn (Score:5, Informative)
Hate to be anal, but slashdot editors, please....
Emphasis mine. Come on, it's [angryflower.com] not that hard.
In other news, I'm glad they apparently decided not to use "Roogle"... something about that word disturbs me deeply on a primal level.
Re:burn karma burn (Score:2, Funny)
Hehe, thats one of the funniest comic's Ive seen in age's..
Thank's!
Roogle to Slashdotters (Score:2)
We have added "fix pr0n dewd" to our list of things to look into.
--K.
Google will attack Roogle, they attacked GEWGLE (Score:3, Insightful)
Is Google about to have an IPO or something? It seems like they have changed so much in the last couple months...
Re:You post this same thing every Google story (Score:2)
UDRP and ACPA are not examples, but food for thought.
Re:You post this same thing every Google story (Score:2)
I Love RSS (Score:3, Insightful)
Yet, you have these enormous industry groups still haggling over the structure of XML docs tailored to their sector. Purchase orders, precription medication.. you name it - the pace of adoption has been terrible.
Roogle is a temporary name (Score:5, Informative)
Dept? (Score:2)
Re:Check the disclaimer :-) (Score:2)
Re:Where is the Google cache for Google? (Score:1)
Re:RSS for Sherlock, OS X (Score:2)
works fine though, as far as RSS feeds go that is.
Re:RSS for Sherlock, OS X (Score:2)
Thanks,
BTW is there source available? I keep finding nifty 3rd party Sherlock plugins but I'm always worried that I'll become dependent and one day it just won't be there anymore (happened to me with a 'weather' plugin once).
Re:RSS for Sherlock, OS X (Score:2)
When I'm done with the combobox stuff (including a way to remove typos from the combobox query cache) and I can go thru the IB files to see that they don't betray my personal settings enough, I'd be happy to.. It's essentially a nib and 2-3 key XML files.. I'd say probably sometime between