Roogle: RSS Search Engine

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Posted by CmdrTaco on Sunday March 9, 2003 @04:58AM

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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This is a great idea... by Motherfucking+Shit · 2003-03-09 05:03 · Score: 5, Interesting

...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" 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."

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How about RSS domain searches? by rjamestaylor · 2003-03-09 05:04 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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CmdrTaco, is that you? by larry+bagina · 2003-03-09 05:08 · Score: 2, Interesting

Or it's horrible logo. The site needs a little work, but it seems like a good enough idea.
This CmdrTaco Journal entry, just a couple weeks ago, disagrees.

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Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. by Blaine+Hilton · 2003-03-09 05:12 · Score: 3, Interesting

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?)
Google look & feel by Knacklappen · 2003-03-09 05:14 · Score: 4, Interesting

They have blatently copied the Google look and feel

This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista 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.

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1. Re:Google look & feel by ergo98 · 2003-03-09 05:42 · Score: 2, Interesting
  
  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.
Google is pretty cool but... by quantaman · 2003-03-09 05:16 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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Another *oogle Search Engine by presroi · 2003-03-09 05:20 · Score: 2, Interesting

This one here 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).

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Oddly enough, Google seems to be offline... by frs_rbl · 2003-03-09 05:29 · Score: 2, Interesting

A new kind of /. effect?

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Looks legal to me by cperciva · 2003-03-09 05:30 · Score: 1, Interesting

IANAL, but that site rather screams "parody" to me.

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Re:Oh that's an easy question to answer... by circusnews · 2003-03-09 05:43 · Score: 2, Interesting

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.
Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. by aallan · 2003-03-09 09:11 · Score: 2, 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.

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