Google Experiments

gafferted writes "The boffins at google have been experimenting with new toys, such as Keyboard Shortcuts and glossary, but most fun is Google Sets. Try "green, purple, red" to get a set of 40 different colours. Try a set that contains both Richard Stallman and Bill Gates, see what google associates with Slashdot or ask for a set of rude words."

OFMG I thought it could never happen...

[Zeddicus_Z]

...but you've Slashdotted google!#*(@Q$#^$

wow.

Re:OFMG I thought it could never happen...

[HiQ]

Can you find Google in the Google cache???

How about this set...

[doc_traig]

... "Google" and "Jumps the Shark"?

- DDT

Great...

[Nachtfalke]

The one time I actually want to read what the story's about, and the webserver is down...

Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb!

[gdav]

I am in awe.

I fed it Hugh, Pugh and Barney Mcgrew - and it gave the right answer.

It can't be far from becoming self-aware.

george

Obviously broken

[GigsVT]

No wonder it is still beta, it associates Rob Malda with RMS and Bill Gates!

Richard Stallman
Bill Gates
Linus Torvalds
Larry Wall
Bruce Perens
Eric Raymond
Steve Jobs
Brian Behlendorf
Chris Dibona
Larry Augustin
Rob Malda
Michael Tiemann
Randal Schwartz
Jamie Zawinski

slashdot rude words

[Anonymous Coward]

"see what google associates with Slashdot or ask for a set of rude words."

Google assiciates rude words with Slashdot, but i think the sysadmins were typing them in manually for each query i made while their servers were grinding to a slasdotted halt.

google cache?

[Anonymous Coward]

looks like googles slashdotted, someone find a cache of the page on google!

In case it's slashdotted

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Re:Cuthbert, Dibble, Grubb!

[CoolVibe]

> It can't be far from becoming self-aware.

When it starts spouting "I am." at every query, start getting worried :)

Keys...

[mbbac]

If Google were smart they'd use the w, a, s, d keys instead of i, j, k, l. My fingers automatically go to wasd after many, many games of Quake 3 -- and many other games using the same engine. :)

Pair o' Ducks

[obtuse]

Google caches sites that don't cache themselves, but Google doesn't cache itself.

Shouldn't Google cache itself?

I am Russell.

Re:OFMG I thought it could never happen...

[Kredal]

Actually you can. The funniest thing about it is the standard disclaimer, "Google is not affiliated with the authors of this page, nor responsible for it's content.

To wit: http://216.239.35.100/search?q=cache:zsbOtgGsZtYC: www.google.com/+google&hl=en&ie=UTF8 [216.239.35.100]

Google *do* cach itself, and the result is funny!

[Jugalator]

Looks like an easter egg to me. :)

Google's cache of www.google.com [216.239.35.100]

amazing

[Drath]

Wow I entered Natalie Portman into google sets and i got 'hot grits' back!

Kevin Bacon is now at a whole new level....

[i_want_you_to_throw_]

Now you can connect him with everything in the universe.

from the mad-mad-scientists dept?

[MrEd]

I'd be pretty damn mad if my project got the slashdotting that this has brought down on labs1.google.com...

Re:Fark-like Not Safe For Work

[arkanes]

I think you may be the coolest person I ever met, because you used the phrase "grepping for inbound boobies". I need a bumper sticker of that or something.

Re:Obviously broken

[sharkey]

"One of these things is not like the other..."

Re:OFMG I thought it could never happen...

[sameerd]

I wonder if its possible to slashdot Slashdot. Now that google has fallen its time to go for the ultimate.

Ultimate Test

[km790816]

The ultimate test: Jenna Jameson, Sylvia Saint, Houston, Chasey Lain, Christy Canyon [google.com]

...and it passes with flying colors.

In Case it Returns from "The Slashdotted Zone"

[guttentag]

At the moment, http://labs.google.com/ [google.com] is displaying this:

Thanks for your interest in Google Labs.

The lab is temporarily closed as we deal with an experiment that got slightly out of hand. Nothing to be concerned about, really. All of our engineers are perfectly safe and there was never any real danger of it escaping into the wild.

Please check back in a few hours. Everything should be back to normal then and science will march on once again. We appreciate your patience.

I assume they've sent someone to fetch Stephen Wolfram [slashdot.org] so science may continue.

This makes me wonder what Google will be like 10 years from now. Will they accidentally release a Lawnmower-Man-like entity onto the Internet and then categorically deny everything? Will they have to contribute to a special SuperFund for Internet pollution? Will we see cartoons of Men In Black spray-burning suspicious goo off the Google logo?