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.
Nice work :( (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Nice work :( (Score:2)
Or due to a severe slashdotting...
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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