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Google Bumps Up Search a Notch With Google Nose BETA
coastin writes "The folks at Google Labs have launched a new way to search with Google Nose BETA. The new condensation in search will have you "Coming to your senses" where you can go beyond type, talk, and touch for a new notation of sensation. Get acquainted with Your internet sommelier, expertly curated Knowledge Panels pair images, descriptions, and aromas. Take a whiff of the Google Aromabase — 15M+ scentibytes. Don't ask, don't smell! For when you're wary of your query — SafeSearch included. What's that smell? Google Nose BETA leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available with: Street Sense (vehicles have inhaled and indexed millions of atmospheric miles), Android Ambient Odor Detection (collects smells via the world's most sensible mobile operating system), and SMELLCD 1.8+ (high-resolution compatible for precise and controlled odors)"
Svefg cbfg! V'z fcrpvny.
And take down the site and make it look like Slashdot has been Slashdotted.
The rest of this stuff is just lame garbage.
I just figured out Firefox no longer has a ROT13 viewer/editor.
This used to be a standard feature in browsers. When did Firefox lose it? I looked in about:config but there were no "ROT13" parameters. Is there a way to re-enable it?
No sig today...
This is about as lame as my dad saying "cool, dude, awesome, and cowabunga" when I was a teenager. Stop the madness!
sudo make me a sandwich
uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
Using this now:
http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php
Limping through /. front page.
As April Fool's official trolls go, this isn't bad. But no goatse. What gives?
slashdot has become useless for a day
The link takes me to a Nose search for "The Beach". Seinfeld/Kramer reference or something else?
PlusFive Slashdot reader for Android. Can post comments.
Girls would like this, they could discreetly identify someone's perfume. People who collect flowers, insects, etc., could identify them too.
I find it funny that when it comes to technology it is getting harder to call something that can be quantified absurd, outrageous or even conspiracy.
Perhaps this is a reverse April Fools...it makes fools out of those that think its foolish.
This will inevitably lead to a new kind of pr0n on the interwebs. Send your musk by email. Synchronize your periods on facebook. And that guy whose handle is "mustyballsack"? You don't want to know.
Try decoding that!
zOMG PONIES!!!! was the best /. 4/1 joke ever. This is just kinda lame.
As a person who has never had the pleasure of a sense of smell, I find this highly offensive. Every one is curtious and makes accomidations to people who are vision or hearing impared but I always get laughed at why I tell people I don't have a sense of smell. And I know this is April 1st, but to me this is no joke.
This is just annoying. Really, who uses rot13 for anything?
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
Google Nose, right after shutting down Google Reader, which showed that Google's shit does, in fact, stink.
Dear Leader was quoted as saying "April Fools!".
haha - Dear Leader makes world best ever joking april fools!
-Kim-
I have encrypted this posting using a very secret cypher known only to me. But I have a revolutionary break through and I can exchange information with strangers who might not have my key, public or private. Basically I encrypt it using XOR scheme, get this, TWICE! It has been encrypted twice, ok so this must be secure.
sed -e 's/Chuck Norris/Rajnikant/g' joke > fact
back tomorrow
Am I the only one who finds this less amusing than it could be, given Google's astounding lack of foresight on killing Reader and other services? I'm surprised they didn't put a disclaimer on Google Nose saying "Google Nose will be closing April 2, 2013."
It's a spoof on DRM?
Actually, a sense of "smell" in an Andrioid device is the one missing hardware feature that prevents us from implementing a Trek tricorder on one. In the original series, they were always using it to do some kind of chemical analysis. You could even do some medical analysis that way, without the primitive animal assistance that currently requires..
I can't wait for the apps!
Damn it... they would come out with this the day I'm all congested and can't smell anything!
I think this is the first time I've used the Emacs m-x rot13-region command.
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Whenever a player quits EVE to go play WoW, the Average IQ of both games increase.
All the April Fools jokes suck this year. Even Google's is obvious and lame. I seriously think the fact that it's on Monday has a lot to do with it.
There is no -1 Disagree mod. Slashdot.org/faq defines mod options. USE IT.
News? This has already been around for almost 20 years.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970416020233/http://realaroma.com
In Soviet Russia a beowulf cluster of these things imagines you welcoming your new, neural-network overlords.
What if aliens land on earth on April 1st? Would anyone believe them? Who would cover it? What if someone made some really useful innovation or invention? How can he transmit believable information today? Isn't this a security threat?
None of these comments say anything about google making a database of smells........
This one was a "Funny Once".
Please stop now.
A circle of trolls trolling one another? Starting with /. management.
Finally Google's nose is running.
Sure enough, the cow costume was hanging up next to the superhero outfit and sailors uniform. (S,Spud)