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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. This is a great idea... by Motherfucking+Shit · · 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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  2. How about RSS domain searches? by rjamestaylor · · 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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  3. Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them. by Blaine+Hilton · · 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?)

  4. Google look & feel by Knacklappen · · 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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  5. Google is pretty cool but... by quantaman · · 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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