Roogle: RSS Search Engine

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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Yuk

[captainclever]

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.

Roogle is just ASKING for trouble...

[n76lima]

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?

Perhaps they want Google to buy them.

[Schnapple]

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.

Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them.

[Kirin3]

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.

Probably trying to get Google's attention

[Midnight Thunder]

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?

Rip-off

[MBraynard]

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.

Re:Google look & feel

[Anonymous Coward]

But if you look at Altavista in 1996, before the big portalization, you'll still see a bit more clutter than you see on Google. And, Excite in 1996 is far from clean. I can't remember Excite any earlier because I don't think I ever used it much. I was a devoted AltaVista user until they stopped/slowed indexing new sites, portalized it, and just made it not worth using. Then I found Google, and it became my new home page.

You can not deny, however, that Teoma, HotBot, AllTheWeb, AltaVista and WiseNut have all been influenced by Google's successful design. You don't need to invent something to make it popular.

Re:Nice work :(

[JDWTopGuy]

Don't worry; soon enough somebody will make a porn search engine. Maybe they'll call it "Poogle".

Google will attack Roogle, they attacked GEWGLE

[pheph]

Google has been very forceful and a little overzealous with their trademark attacks and threats. After over two years of owning Gewgle.com they are just now sending legally threatening letters.

Is Google about to have an IPO or something? It seems like they have changed so much in the last couple months...

You post this same thing every Google story

[Anonymous Coward]

Google MUST go after trademark violations if they want to have any protection for the word. It's not just some evil meanie thing, it's required by the law. It has nothing to do with being a public or private company. As soon as a trademark violation comes up that produces enough traffic to come to their attention, they must deal with it. The site itself admits the traffic was growing. It was a greater problem than it was 2 years ago.

The sites listed as similar "examples" UDRP and ACPA are not companies with a valuable trademark to protect.

Re:You post this same thing every Google story

[Anonymous Coward]

Give me a break. It's a case of brand confusion. If you create a company called Zerocks to make photocopiers, you don't think you'll hear about it from Xerox? He setup a site which sounds exactly the same as Google, made it look like Google, act like Google (even offering search through Google), and then put a email link asking for credit cards. Sure, he can say it's a joke, and maybe it was, but how does he know what every visitor to his site will think? If he really wanted to redirect to Google, just put a forwarder in.

Re:You post this same thing every Google story

[Anonymous Coward]

Asking for credit cards with an email address link looked commercial to me.

I Love RSS

[jimmyCarter]

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.