Roogle: RSS Search Engine

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.

Nice work :(

I get a Javascript error as soon as I get there. Yeah, Roogle's going places.

Re:Nice work :(

Yeah, Roogle sucks. I searched for 'sex' and all I got was articles, no porn. What a cheap search engine. How am I supposed to get my PORssNFeed?

Yuk

Sorry, but just getting the Google logo and crudely crossing out the G to replace with an R is a bit lame. Not impressed. They have blatently copied the Google look and feel, something which is probably illegal, and certainly annoying.

Google look & feel

They have blatently copied the Google look and feel

This is certainly true, but have you been to Altavista [altavista.com] 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.

Google all the way !

but have you been to Altavista lately?

No ! Did I miss anything......?

Farter?

Uh? [fuzzygroup.com]...why is the most frequently searched term "farter?"

What kind of sicko has been testing this engine?

This is a great idea...

...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 [fuzzygroup.com]" 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."

How about RSS domain searches?

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.

Perhaps they want Google to buy them.

Perhaps they want Google to buy them. It's not a horrible idea - they come up with a good idea, they implement it, they even have a Google-ish name, so Google buys it off of them.

Of course this is the way technology has headed with Microsoft (people do stuff just to have MS buy it), and it's killing innovation.

And of course Google would probably do something like this in-house, with their own people and coding practices. I think the best these guys could hope for is one of those "polite" cease-and-desist letters.

Re:Perhaps they want Google to buy them.

Perhaps they want Google to buy them. It's not a horrible idea - they come up with a good idea, they implement it, they even have a Google-ish name, so Google buys it off of them.

I don't necessarily agree with this - it seems to me that Google has more to lose than to gain if they were to buy it. If people are finding and implementing their own RSS from the site, they're at least, in part, damaging the usefulness of news.google.com. Just my two cents.

Probably trying to get Google's attention

Judging by the fact that they have made a CC of the Google look and logo (with the the G crossed-out), I am sure that they are wanting to get Google's attention, and everyone else's while they are at it. They are probably hoping that enough people will make enough noise that Google will encorporate what they feel is a great tool into Google.

Admittedly it is not the best approach, but if it ends up working, well why not?

I want my flying car...

Astro: Rey Reorge! There's a rew search rengine ralled Roogle!

George: Everyone already knows about Google, Astro.

Astro: Not Roogle, ROOGLE!

George: Shut up you stupid mutt.

Google is pretty cool but...

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.

it's "its"!

C'mon, people- this was done properly in the original message, then messed up one line down. 'it's' means 'it is'. the possesive version, such as 'its horrible logo' or 'its name' is spelled 'its'. Just learn the darned language!

Rip-off

Why should we hope their name doesn't get them in trouble? Google did a lot of work to develop a stellar reputation and have done a lot of other projects with that Xoogles, like Froogle, etc. And they did this all starting from scratch, not trying to jump on anyone else's work.

And some clowns suddenly appear and try to co-op google's reputation and cash in on the high name recognition they deserve? I am not sure if it's illegal, but that doesn't make it OK; what it makes it is pathetic.

What's the big deal?

You can already search rss feeds on google [google.com].

Plus there are tons of news aggregators that already exist and have huge indicies of rss sources [disobey.com].

Conclusion: /. editors get a kick out giving google reason to sue another small company with poor judgement! Either that or they like /.ing small sites.

In other words:

1. Create web site - which doesn't do anything useful but has a name that rips off Google.
2. ???
3. Lawsuit!

burn karma burn

Hate to be anal, but slashdot editors, please....

it

's horrible logo

Emphasis mine. Come on, it's [angryflower.com] not that hard.

In other news, I'm glad they apparently decided not to use "Roogle"... something about that word disturbs me deeply on a primal level.

Google will attack Roogle, they attacked GEWGLE

Google has been very forceful and a little overzealous with their trademark attacks and threats. After over two years of owning Gewgle.com [gewgle.com] they are just now sending legally threatening letters [gewgle.com].

Is Google about to have an IPO or something? It seems like they have changed so much in the last couple months...

I Love RSS

Seriously.. here's a standard that's evolved quickly and without a bunch of bitching between various factions (at least not that I'm aware of).

Yet, you have these enormous industry groups still haggling over the structure of XML docs tailored to their sector. Purchase orders, precription medication.. you name it - the pace of adoption has been terrible.

Roogle is a temporary name

Looking way down on their blog you see that Roolge is a temporary name. There is no motive for a Google buyout and they realize the name will not last. Check it out: blog entry [fuzzygroup.com]