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The Search Engine Belt Buckle

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the how-some-people-get-their-kicks dept.

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?"

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  1. Sure, I'll bite... by SIGALRM · · Score: 5, Funny
    "Engadget shows how they made "The Search Engine Belt Buckle"
    Finally, something from the good folks at Edgadget that all of us can actually use.

    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'?"
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    Sigs cause cancer.
    1. Re:Sure, I'll bite... by Kenja · · Score: 5, Funny
      "Excuse me, sir, but why does your belt say 'night diaper bondage'?"

      Anser back: "Why doesn't yours?". Hell, based on the size of this thing I think they're targeting Texas geeks.

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      "Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
  2. Both? by kjones692 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Art project or pointless hack? Why can't it be both?

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  3. chic magnet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    boy, this must work well with the girls!
    "hey baby, check out my new search engine belt buckle"

    1. Re:chic magnet by scrod · · Score: 5, Insightful

      I don't know, seems like a rather effective way to get people to bend down and observe your crotch area with great interest.

  4. Seen something liek this before... by thegoogler · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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

    1. Re:Seen something liek this before... by ZorbaTHut · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Yes, there is. It's equally mesmerizing - I've sat there and watched it for a few hours. Funny searches:

      paris hilton (no less than seven times)
      UTOPIA (you're not gonna find it if you can't fix your capslock)
      www.google.com (found it!)
      net (I can only wonder what they were searching for)
      BIG BROTHER (no, no we're not watching you)
      . . . and at least two or three phone numbers, which I was very tempted to call.

      "Hi! Who is this? Did you know someone's searching for you on Google?"

      --
      Breaking Into the Industry - A development log about starting a game studio.
  5. Re:Maybe we can have an award by the_meager · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how many of us geeks were twisted enough to find out what came up when you searched for "Vampire shemale beastiality bondage"?

    I for one will probably be having nightmares tonight...

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  6. 38,600 matches by Poilobo · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  7. Re:Maybe we can have an award by Glendale2x · · Score: 5, Funny

    So how many of us geeks were twisted enough to find out what came up when you searched for "Vampire shemale beastiality bondage"?

    Enough to ensure it'll make the list.

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  8. Video clips?!? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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!

  9. Art project or pointless hack? by Baricom · · Score: 5, Funny

    Art project or pointless hack?

    There's a difference?

  10. Bat Search Belt by eomnimedia · · Score: 5, Funny

    Batman: Quick! Robin! The...batoogle...search..belt....

    Robin: Wha?

    Batman: Never mind.

  11. Common Searches by ozmanjusri · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

    http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/article.php/215 6041
    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.

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    "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
  12. My new life goal.. by Klowner · · Score: 5, Funny

    Great, now I feel compelled to visit google every few minutes and search for "The person wearing this belt is a sexual pervert".