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- Spookymonster, on 10/20/2007, -2/+54When I read the Digg, I figured the list would look something like this:
porn
warez
porn
pimp out your myspace
porn
is Brittney pregnant again? - sintaks, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22And it's still there from when you didn't get the job with them 6 years ago.
Show off. - malangali, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16If they put this live online, or a widget, or whatever, they would just be inviting a whole new breed of spam - Google Hit Spam! The moment someone realized they could get themselves to the top of the list by flooding the zone, they would hijack thousands of computers to search every 2 seconds for "Free Viagra" or whatever else they'd managed to optimize themselves as the number one google hit.
I'm sure Google has thought about this, and decided they just don't need the aggravation. - MellerTime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Well it's not like they're displaying ALL the search queries being performed. That screen would be scrolling so fast you wouldn't be able to read a thing. Besides, I doubt they're displaying any searches for kiddie porn and the like, so we can cut out a good number there too. It'd just be kinda cool to see what people are actively searching for. Like a live version of their Zeitgeist.
Since they've obviously already got things setup to do this, now they just have to throw it to HTML instead of a projector.
Oohh, and wayjer's idea of a widget would be cool. Scratch my idea, I want a widget now! - tito13kfm, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10chronic the hemp hog... Did anybody else google that wondering wtf that kid was smoking?
- dclowd9901, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9That's kinda scary. It really puts it out there that Google is a metadata warehouse.
Anyone here like Futurama? I would equivocate Google with those Giant Floating Brains, and their relentless pursuit to know everything in the universe.
Scooty Puffy Jr.! - kenplaysviola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Here is Dogpile.com's real-time search, similar to Google's real time search that we saw in the video. Select between filtered and unfiltered.
http://www.dogpile.com/_1_267IU9T04I57FMZ__info.dogpl.iso1/searchspy/ - MrDan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8LOL, also note-worthy: "What does news stand for?"
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Heh. Sure. Perhaps when you get your 3Tbit/sec fiber link directly connected to Google. :).
- Odwalla, on 10/12/2007, -4/+10"where you can see, in real time, some of the searches that are being made in that exact moment"
As opposed to seeing, in real time, some of the searches that were made last week. (eyeroll) - hadak, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6News stands for North East West South... i believe it was a news paper in illinois that originally coined the term, because they were pulling in stories from all the corners of the US.
- wayjer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I think it would be cool to have a live query google widget!
- synae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5when you search "what does news stand for", one of the first results is for acronymfinder.com, and it turns out this may not be such a silly question (although it does sound quite ridiculous).
National Early Warning System
Network Extensible Windowing System
Nuclear Events Web-based System
Naval Environmental Watch Steward
among others. - TheCheeta, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7*ziiiiiing*
- detrate, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7The words it's displaying are just the ones flagged by homeland security.
- MellerTime, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Now if only they would get something like this online... Ohh, and include the number of results each search returned.
- wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5"I don't think clients would be impressed with all the porn searches :)"
Bah, you must be joking. Who do you think is doing the searches? Porn made the internet. Why do you think a home user has 5 mb/sec download speed? Seriously, I have more bandwidth today than my college did shared amoung 10k students. - etruscan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Why wouldn't you? The results are so much richer and more diverse!
- trebor, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10+funny
don't forget
p2p
kazaa
free mp3
my chemical romance - akinder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I like the ones when people actually search for the .com/.net/whatever address "Where is it? I dunno, google wachovia.com"
- joemc72, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3On ABC's World News Tonight when they broadcast from Google HQ, Bob Woodruff stood in front of a TV showing the locations the searches wer coming from in real time. It was very cool and I thought Google could have made a cool screensaver out of it. Dunno why it's relevant here, but cool nonetheless.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3http://www.dogpile.com, a site with the same idea, funny as hell to read when you're bored!! Sorry if someone already posted it but im not gonna read every single comment
- aurifex, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Exactly what I was thinking. +digg
- synae, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"That's kinda scary. It really puts it out there that Google is a metadata warehouse."
like there was any question =p - Phlogiston, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This reminds me of Metaspy(http://www.metaspy.com) and sounds like a decent idea, but if Google were to do this then the gov't wouldn't need to request data from them, and I like the gov't to squirm a bit.
- kirkio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Interesting, however this is very old news. An article in Wired mentioned this. It's nice to see a picture, however.
- hadak, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6yeowch.
- jj555298, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I want one of those in my living room...
- djwk1928, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Definetly agree, I would love to see this sort of thing online. I've mentioned it to a number of people actually, would be an interesting feature.
I love live statistics, have always interested me.
- http://www.AlexsWebcamWorld.com - chazzy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Here's the inside story on the how that display came about, and a little bit of history:
http://xooglers.blogspot.com/2006/03/hey-i-just-saw-my-search-go-by.html - Jozer99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2They have had this for years. Never seen a video though. Obviously doesn't show every search done, because it would be to fast to process by a single computer, let alone see. It probably filters the searches for appropriateness, then randomly picks one in a thousand or so.
- locojones, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I'm just curious where the whiny little bitches are who were crying about violations of their privacy rights when the government asked to get ahold of the same list of terms? It's a violation of privacy if the federal government wants to see search terms, but somehow not if the precious Google scrolls them in the lunchroom for all to see? Give me a break.
- teeks99, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Actually, the NSA has a secret spy camera that is watching that video feed....
That's how they track terrorists. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://djswifty.livejournal.com/194563.html
- neonoodle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hadak, I heard that story too... but more likely the "NEWS = North East West South" correlation resulted in trying to teach kids an easier way to remember the directions on a compass. Just like "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally = Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, Subtraction."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Umm... nobody was saying that it was "new".
- ArmchairAthlete, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I made something similar where I work. We're a major job search website.
It shows top searches in the previous minute, with counts. Then it breaks it down by location, shows top searches that had no results (pimps anyone?), etc.
Location-wise if a search is within 30 miles of a major metro area that area will be flagged in my records. The top areas are displayed.
It does have a bad word filter also.
Sometimes people run a crazy search they think up a bit and then run out to check it =P
There's plenty o crazy searches regardless. - fonebone, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Yeah right hadak. Believe it or not, but news is actually a real word. From the Middle English "newes".
- goatrandy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Scooty puff junior Suuuuuuuucks.... :)
+1 Digg. :) - wyngnut, on 10/12/2007, -8/+9No Britney is finally yielding to her genes and age, shes getting fat. Poor K-Fed. :)
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I don't get why everyone is so impressed.. IIRC, most of the search engines used to have a "real time" page. I think I remember Lycos and WebCrawler doing it at least.. possibly HotBot..
http://www.searchlores.org/pepldoin.htm - LordJezo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Does anyone remember the live search thing that Web Crawler used to have years and years ago? It was fun to sit there and watch what people were searching for. You'd see some strange things come through the pipe.
It was called the Search Voyeur and you could just leave it open and watch the searches scroll by.
Here's a list of all the search voyeurs in recent history (recent as in years ago)
http://searchlore.org/pepldoin.htm - darb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the "what does news stand for" sounds like some kid googled his essay question.
...but, who doesn't google their essay questions? - mhud, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3So, all this fuss about not sharing search requests with the government, and they're just scrolling them on an electronic billboard?
Only kidding! - dyrmsz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is a good attempt at not getting bad PR by giving the NSA exactly what they want
google is a sellout - link_36p, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4that cant be right, olny like one new search appears each second
- mcewen98, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This was used as a screensaver by a google employee who was talking at a presentation that I went to. It looked like certain bad words were filtered out, but some still made it through.
"that cant be right, olny like one new search appears each second"
And duh, of course it's not showing 100% of searches made. - drksun, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2owned..
- eeeeaaii, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This is not terribly exciting or new. We worked with Yahoo a year or so ago to put their searches on a sign in Times Square. Here is a URL about it:
http://www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000123.html - theDrizzle, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Maybe the US government should get an FBI agent down there to just hangout and write down everything he sees...i think the government would be satisfied with a water-down amount of info, they've accepted it before...
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