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The Search Engine Belt Buckle
ptorrone writes "Engadget shows how they made "The Search Engine Belt Buckle" a PDA-based device which shows 24 hours of all the bizarre and banal things people are looking for on the web. Art project or pointless hack? That's for you to decide, people are searching for some pretty freaky stuff out there, so why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?"
Oh, it looks cool all right. I want people to stop me on the street and ask about it.
"Excuse me, sir, but why does your belt say 'night diaper bondage'?"
Sigs cause cancer.
Art project or pointless hack? Why can't it be both?
Love the Third Amendment?
Maybe we can use that device to come up with an award, "most screwed up search engine query." Vampire shemale beastiality bondage?
is that the goatscx guy on your belt buckle or are you just happy to see me.
boy, this must work well with the girls!
"hey baby, check out my new search engine belt buckle"
I had to GIS it. You'll be happy there are no results. However I do have a sudden desire to start a website called "diaperse".
I like the idea, but it would be way funnier if it displayed the slashdot fortune/QOTD from the bottom of the site... that's more screwed up than any search query on google... Right now it says "I'm a GENIUS! I want to dispute sentence structure with SUSAN SONTAG!!" How the hell could that be less weird than a search term? Really???
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in essence, it is the ugliest thing ive ever seen... but for some reason the screen makes it oh so pretty.
I remember hearing that there is a monitor at google headquaters(i think it was in wired magazine) that scrolls random searches that are currently being done, cool idea.... but not new
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WTF! There are 38,600 matches for "night diaper bondage"
Okay that's it, we're all going straight to hell.
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i want some device that close to my "procreator" displaying such a mad display of .....hrm
wait...i can view this thing in my own room ya?
Is that a Google search on your belt or are you just happy to see me?
watching search engine queries is like looking into the minds, the hopes and desires of millions of people around the world. Just one more step to our goal of godlike knowledge of everything that's going on everywhere. //warning....warning.....overrated
-- Checking emails and kicking cheats `till the day I die.
A belt buckle is a tombstone for a dead dick.
Choosing the lesser of two evils is a choice for evil.
Is there a website that displays the last X amount of searches for a specific search engine?
gShares.net
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so why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?
How about because it's a complete fucking waste of time?
If anybody actually wants to do something like this, it would probably make more sense to get a cheap LCD and a microcontroller. You could put together something that works similarly for maybe $20.
A great many people use search engines as modern-day confessional booths - supposedly confidential ways to bear their most personal and private thoughts (well, search engines are more useful, but suck at spiritual advice).
And who wouldn't want to listen in on a confessional booth every now and then? Sure you'll never know who made what search, but it's a peek inside someone's psyche that you would never get the chance to see otherwise. Mental voyeurism.
Plus you may (~may~) find out that everyone else really is as weird as you in private. But why you'd need this on a belt buckle is anyone's guess.
- HOORAY!
if it had wifi....Could update it 24/7
But an interesting project nonetheless....
-thewldisntenuff
My MythTV HowTo
I guess if you have no other reason to get women to stare at you crotch, this will work.
It's almost as cool as The Legendary Nintendo NES Controller Belt Buckle.
The long rumored, much talked about, infamous Nintendo NES Controller Belt Buckle. This belt buckle, once brushed off as merely a myth in the gaming world, is now available to grace your pants.
For those who won't rtfa:
http://request-header.info
I've had hours (okay, minutes) of amusement by doing something similar; using the passive search feature of gtk-gnutella to see what others were looking for. People do indeed look for weird shit.
You can always tell how many are using the system for the first time by the number of times there's a search for the word 'porn' by itself. I'm tempted to try it out myself, but I'm afraid that with only 256Mb of ram, my computer will blow up.
These are people that favor a search engine called "dogpile" ... does this bias the sample, ya think?
Why the hell are they using video clips to display this information? Why not, you know, a text file of the search terms? This seemed cool and all, but when I saw that they were using Windows Media Player to do screen capture on a website, they instantly lost 50 square geek points. Square points!
*I* say that the next person who submits a story with any sort of intentional rhyming should be drawn, quartered, and then slashdotted. And yes, I know what all of those things are.
.. at just how pointless this is.
Fine, they're thinking "outside the box" but all they've done is duct tape a pda to a belt. Scroll some video across it and all of a sudden it's a "hack"?
I should submit a story about the day I broke the power button on my PC and replaced it, that was a hella wicked hack!
Art project or pointless hack?
There's a difference?
Just wondering if there is an easier way to display the search terms than to encode them as WMV. It seems a bit overkill and definitely not very clever.
I know this particular site was displayed using flash, but maybe some search site offers rss-feed or perhaps one could use perl/php to grab those terms and use the autoscroll feature of most text viewers for pocket pcs.
The battery life could be enhanced significantly.
are you really fat? i bet you can sign up for one of those loose weight programs for a free ipod..
:), and MrP because that's who I am.
what the hell is up with your web page? man you are the new starwars kid for me.. what a dork..
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I was born on December 24, 1982.
I have always liked science, technology, and computers.
My first computer was a TI-99/4A back in 1985 or 1986.
My first modern x86 computer was a 486DX2/66 that I built in March of 1993.
At around the same time, I began writing small MS-DOS Batch utilities.
In 1994 I created my first web site, a simple search engine/link list.
I started programming applications in late 1995.
I released my first shareware application in 1996, "Go To AOL", an add-on for American Online.
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Besides displaying search engine queries, this belt buckle also emits powerful female repellent rays. I doubt a girl would even get close enough to say "jesus christ that's the ugliest, geekiest thing I've ever seen."
-B
It's entirely ontopic, in fact you don't even have to RTFA to see how.
Now personally, I would just put some porn on the thing. Nothing to get people to look at your cock like some nice porn. Actually, porn involving your own cock would be the best form of advertising, provided you have anything that won't fit in frame all at once.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Come on people, it's Funny. And Insightful. But the device is a bit to expensive for someone who can't even get laid by picking up a girl at a bar using a fake Rolex.
A much more entertaining game to play is, which product(s) is Engadget actually shilling in its latest article?
We all know that this is a commercial blog, so for this last article, was it Windows Media 9, Dogpile's SearchSpy, the PocketPC division of Microsoft, or some combination of them all?
Get off my launchpad!
Your link requires a closed-source plug-in to view the search terms.
This one displays the search terms using W3C standards
check out the power of client-side filters (dumbass)
-- 'The' Lord and Master Bitman On High, Master Of All
Batman: Quick! Robin! The...batoogle...search..belt....
Robin: Wha?
Batman: Never mind.
I'm still waiting for a belt device with a hi-res LCD screen which will show me the latest and best porno from the web. Just need to enter a little bit of preference info.
:)
It'd probably sell a helluva lot better than this would.
SB
It's old. The more humans I meet, the more I like my cats. At least they are honest.
There are a few places where you can check on live searches, and there are a lot of advertisers who are very interested in the results.
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http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/21
is a site which aggregates a lot of the searches.
On occasion, I find it quite relaxing watching the queries scroll up the screen like some wierdly twisted ascii lava lamp, and the content of some of those queries makes me feel reasuringly normal by comparison.
"I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
I like that once in a while the phrase ;)
"Why are you watching?"
scrolls past. A new symptom of the slashdot effect I guess
"Seppuku hentai"
This is not a troll. What do you think big belt buckles are for? To protect your upper pelvis? They are there to draw attention to your genitals. What do you think this belt buckle is for? Same damn thing, since it too is a belt buckle. The giant belt buckle is the descendant of the modern codpiece.
This is why most of my journal entries are about the abuse of moderation - because moderation is so frequently abused.
"Police brutality is common in my area, that's why I hate the motherfuckers."
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
It just plays a static move of search requests. Thats weak. It should find a phone via bluetooth dial to the internet, update the search request list and then display in real time. Bonus points if it hacks the any available phone to use a data source. How kick ass would it be to walk up to somone.. notice their phone starts to dial.. see your belt buckle update.. and then walk away.
sexy salesperson girl gallery
possum probe
Try it! What sort of sickos are surfing your website? Post em here!
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Africus aut Europaeus?
"olympic nude athletes"
"leaving the scene of an accident"
"night diaper bondage"
"food"
"used juicer"
"catfighting lesbians"
"disorder cutting self injury"
It may only be a coincidence but I think someone's been watching what I google. Oh wait, they have "food" listed. Phew I was scared for a minute there.
Who does "we" mean?
"So we thought, hey..."
"We couldn't resist the temptation..."
"We grabbed some stuff and were off."
"We might make a smaller one..."
etc.
Social butterflies though many Slashdotters may be, something tells me that in this particular case it's the figurative "we" as opposed to more than one actual person working on this.
Doesn't mean it's not a cool hack though, say we.
Try Peoples primary - it is rather fascinating how dirty some of our esteemed politicians, judges etc can be!
This would be quite an ironic and funny thing to display on that belt.
= a4 4
http://www.tshirthell.com/shirts/tshirt.php?sku
n/t
Also, the Slashdot submitter appears to be the buckle-maker, but hasn't bothered to mention this.
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"why not put in a belt buckle and get on the scene like a sex machine?"
This is slashdot, remember?
"Monkeys spanking each other on the ass while garth brookes douches his grandmother's second cousin's daughter?" Yes.....Yes indeed..
I wrote code so you didn't have to.
Its 147am EST here and i just saw a whole bunch of searches for beltbuckle on the searchspy.com site. Wonder if its the /. effect in real time. though, i see the story's been posted for 2 hours since this post. anyone else have a simular experience?
Batman's utiliy belt = a Beowulf cluster of these
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comedy!
While scanning over the stats for my website last month, I came across the absolute funniest search query I've ever seen:
"i want a free and easy fucking simple image viewing program god"
How could I say to men: "Speak louder, shout! For I am deaf!"? -Ludwig van Beethoven
is at MetaSpy.com.
I have been watching the feed for about 5 min, and I notice that there are a lot of searches for "food" (the artice mentions this). I wonder why. Recipes? or just very hungry people with internet access looking for a way to get some grub? any other ideas?
... a beowulf cluster of those ... around Fat Bastard's waist.
Extraordinary Vacations. Exceptional Prices
I've seen at least ten searches entitled "die slashdotters"
In soviet russia, You ask not what country do for you, but what you do for country!
Oh wait...
I realize it would require some additional geekiness, but it would be neat to have big letters scrolling over the surface of your belt.
What would it require to get this done cheaply? I'm thinking 7-8 rows of LEDs going all the way around the belt, hooked up to some controller thingie that can show scrolling text.
Great, now I feel compelled to visit google every few minutes and search for "The person wearing this belt is a sexual pervert".
When the results start showing trolls such as "die slashdotters"
Went to the search spy site to have a look at current queries, first query I see was "die slashdotters" ... maybe some frustrated webmaster?
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"The chances of a demonic possession spreading are remote -- relax."
That when you look at the Searchspy list, someone has recently searched for "die slashdotters" :p
Slightly pointless all in all, there's no real skill involved in using WMP on a PDA which you've essentially duct taped to yourself. Since most people won't actually see what it says (unless you're comfortable with the idea of a large group of men and women squatting in a nightclub, huddled around your crotch... but maybe that's your thing) it would be more fun to actually play a proper movie, like a disco scene or some psychadelic winamp-style visualisation, so you could actually appreciate the belt beyond about 6 inches away...
From my google (groups) command line search utility...
Entered for parameters lightning+strike+window
Entered for parameters plink+coke+hole+window
Entered for parameters lightning+car+group:sci.geo.meteorology
Entered for parameters waiders+flesh+welded
Entered for parameters lightning+plastic+body
Entered for parameters lightning+out+of+the+blue
Entered for parameters lightning+rear+window
Entered for parameters lightning+soft+top
Entered for parameters lightning+strike+stories
Entered for parameters zing+lightning+sparked
Entered for parameters alt.dreams+notes+playing
Entered for parameters alt.dreams+musical+notes+playing
Entered for parameters weeping+noises
Entered for parameters lightning+weeping+hit
Entered for parameters lightning+singing+glow
Entered for parameters lightning+singing+static
Entered for parameters singing+rocks+lightning
(note: most of this is obviously from lightning research, but you can see how you can come up
with a rather looking funny list of things
through the course of using a search engine to zero in on specific events.
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I don't need a signature.
The engadget story page had a link to the Search Spy site. I've been looking at it for a while, and one search string constantly coming up is "die slashdotters". How is this possible?
kudos to the guy/gal that is constantly searching for 'die slashdotters'... see ya around
"Nae Kin! Nae Quin! Nae laird! Nae master! We willna be fooled again!"
Finally, the male equivelant of the woman wearing a t-shirt with lengthy small font text. 'MADAM! I do believe you were staring at my crotch! Oh yes, you were just looking at my belt buckle, sure.'
Ok, I am a software engineer, and thusly a pedantic fuck, so I have to posit: When I see chic I think its pronounced "sheek" and means trendy or popular. When I talk about an attractive young adult female human, I think chick, like a baby chicken. Am I wrong? Dictionaries seem to support me.
Though, I have to admit that chicks are often chic.
-If
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As an added bonus you can sing it to the tune of Supercalifragilistic etc.
Not that I'd go so far as to recommend doing so. (or imagining Julie Andrews doing so)
Ok, who is the guy that keeps searching for "die slashdotters"?
lame belt
people point and laugh
"girls who just want to look at your PDA"
windows media encoder weak
real geeks decompile swf
record xml datastream
chicks dig xml
another idea
search engine hikus
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... the Bible Belt Buckle...
...provided by search engine Fireball. Even shows you if web or image search was used. Well, in some cases that's rather obvious. ;-)
"Die Slashdotters" now seems to be a frequent message on the searchspy for Dogpile, where they seem to have gotten their search spying from. Perhaps someone at Dogpile doesn't like the extra traffic? Or maybe someone is just having their browser refresh ever 5 seconds.
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I went to Metacrawler's Metaspy and saw this as something that was searched 'hhjipqbmoi' and I realised I knew that guy. I get e-mails from him all the time.
I always tend to feel kinda weird when I read those searches. Guess I never query that stuff :)
> Enough to ensure it'll make the list.
Not quite, but now yes: Vampire+shemale+beastiality+bondage
The unofficial
...someone asks to see your ID and you show them your belt buckle.
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One of the search terms was "die slashdotters."
Under capitalism man exploits man. Under communism it's the other way around.
I am seeing lots of "die slashdotters" I wonder if it's a kid being stupid or the service trying to send a message... "Die Slashdotters" = "Help me I can't handle all these hits" in web lingo ...
In the article, they mention DogPile SpySearch as the place they got the list of searches for their video. I think a few of us clicked the link because when you check it up it says 'Die Slashdotters' every 10 or so entries...
(no link added not to add insult to injury)
(from someone who still shudders at the memory)
I 've been doing this with my own site for ages
There was no hacking. This was trying to do something very simple in the laziest way possible. I mean a MOVIE of screen captures of a fucking website?
That's no hacker. That's a bored person with too much money and free time and no skill.
Not worthy of slashdot. I hope he gets made fun of at the clubs with his shitty fashion accessory.
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"Google Enterprise Sales, how can we help you?" ..."
"Hi I'd like to have a subscription on the search queries made by Bill Gates on google.."
"Ohh good choice Sir, this one is most popular, please hold
Well, 3 out of 4.
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Predicate, is that you?
Sounds like the Timebelt in, let's see, was it _There Will Be Time_? How many people will really want to be seen staring at their own nether regions while fiddling with their belt buckles?
At least the Timebelt looks normal when you're not operating it.
Just learn how to copy and paste I see.. Very good.
I doubt that this will be as useful as Randall ("Pink") Floyd's pipe-buckle in the movie Dazed & Confused.
If I still had voting privileges, and hadn't already posted in this thread, I'd upvote you myself.
I can't believe I was in such a rush to post that I forgot to check for the obvious astroturfing.
Get off my launchpad!
MrP is a spam-lover on slashdot.... be done with you.. spammer/scammer...
"Excuse me, I have to go charge up my belt buckle ..."
I think your contest should be for "most screwed up query with innocent intentions". And must contain only true stories. Should be interesting...
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I'm sure you could adapt it to use as a bracelet if you really wanted to.
:)
Now, I'm sure nobody cares, but I'm bored so I'll start ranting anyway. I picked up one of those 'metal ball' bracelets a year ago, a cheap $3 one. I thought it might break easily, being so cheap, but I was surprised with how well it lasted. I wore it 24/7 (wore it to bed, wore it in the shower) and didn't have any problems whatsoever.
Skip forward a few months, and it still looked good as new. Then I went swimming in the sea. I was in the water for about half an hour, and after coming back out the bracelet still looked fine. However, the next morning, I discovered that cheap bracelet + salt water + left overnight = rust. And I don't mean a little bit of rust, this thing was rusted solid! It was amazing - I couldn't even undo it to get it off, and I had to use wire cutters.
On the other hand, I had (and still have) a similar necklace, but it was a much more expensive ($25) one. It's been in the sea several times and still looks and acts brand new (it gets water on it every day from the shower, I've never ever taken it off).
I guess my point is that if you are going to make a bracelet, don't be cheap
50 points for anyone who actually read all of this!
I just watched that Searchspy for a few moments and saw:
mature men in bikinis
There's obviously a reason Google doesn't have a service like this... I think it would be very, very scary.
Though when you think of it... chances are Google is compiling a database of search queries by IP. Talk about profiling!