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Google Experiments

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the mad-mad-scientists dept.

gafferted writes "The boffins at google have been experimenting with new toys, such as Keyboard Shortcuts and glossary, but most fun is Google Sets. Try "green, purple, red" to get a set of 40 different colours. Try a set that contains both Richard Stallman and Bill Gates, see what google associates with Slashdot or ask for a set of rude words."

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  1. Today's Quote (OT) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I come from a small town whose population never changed. Each time a woman got pregnant, someone left town. -- Michael Prichard

    What happened when someone died then?

  2. Censorship by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now, please look for "Reseau Voltaire" in Google... yes, ladies and gents, it doesn't return the Reseau Voltaire website http://www.reseauvoltaire.net
    It turns out that some people at Google don't like what Reseau Voltaire says about the 9-11 events, especially the attack on the Pentagon - This page in particular : http://www.reseauvoltaire.net/actu/conflit3.htm
    A nd don't pretend their bot never encountered this website : it's linked by many others, and is even in Google's directory : http://directory.google.com/Top/World/Fran%C3%A7ai s/Actualit%C3%A9/Journalisme/Ressources/ (bottom of the list).

    The only account that I can find of what looks like REALLY stinking censorship is this page (sorry, in French) http://linuxfr.org/section/Internet/8244,0,0,0,0.h tml

    Any thoughts on that from the country of freedom ? Or anywhere else for that matter ?

  3. In place of these silly features by Ilan+Volow · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    I'd rather have the Google API allow me more than 10 results per search. Let's say you write something in Java which uses to Google API to archive postings of Slashdot Trolls. If you type in "Natalie Portman Hot Grits" into your web client, you may get back the following:

    1. Corporate Home of Portman's Tupperware Store
    2. XXX hot chimpanzees
    3. Quaker instant grits
    4. Gritty instant quakers
    5. Hot XXX babes
    6. Hot XXX gritty Instant Quakers
    7. Star wars collector mugs
    8. Hot deal on 100 grit sand paper
    9. Natalie Merchant Home Page
    10. IMDB: "True Grit" Starring John Wayne...
    If "Let's Dump Hot Grits Down Natalie Portman's Pants" is search result #11, you're fscked and have to result to screen scraping Google and using 3 times more of their bandwidth than you would have used if they dramatically increased the result limit.
    --
    Ergonomica Auctorita Illico!