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Roogle: RSS Search Engine

Posted by CmdrTaco on

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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  1. Perhaps they want Google to buy them. by Schnapple · · Score: 4, Insightful
    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.

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    Schnapple

    1. Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. by Kirin3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      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.