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Post number 20920

Morphic — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 15:56:58 -0800

People continually invent new games to play with Google and Amazon.com to find curious content and excercise the system. First there was Google Whacking (here and here). Then there was Google fighting, Google sets, Google image whacking, Google Bombing, Google Grokking, Amazon whacking, and Google poetry. What similar games have you played, invented, or enjoyed?

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:02:18 -0800

I just don't understand why Googlingfucking hasn't caught on ...

By: mediareport

mediareport — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:04:46 -0800

Don't forget Google Groups art, now conveniently available automatically for lazy people. More in this thread.

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:05:24 -0800

For the longest time, this was the "best image ever" on images.google.com. That made me inherently at peace with the world.

By: WolfDaddy

WolfDaddy — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:05:53 -0800

I didn't know about google fighting: Metafilter vs. Wil Wheaton = 161,000 vs. 48,600 Dell Boy vs. Gateway Cow = 349,000 vs. 49,800 Looks like we're sleeping w/Ben Curtis, and Wesley's got nothing but a bovine buddy. Heh heh.

By: machaus

machaus — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:07:50 -0800

Oh, and instant google galleries can be quite fun.

By: condour75

condour75 — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:15:25 -0800

Then there's Gaggle.

By: DevilsAdvocate

DevilsAdvocate — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:16:25 -0800

Somewhat related to Googlefights is Google-as-spellchecker (this is less fun now that Google has its own "did you mean" feature, but it worked even before that was established): excercise: 111,000 hits exercise: 11,900,000 hits

By: Monk

Monk — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:24:11 -0800

I've tried Google Cooking a couple of times with mixed results.

By: Diddly

Diddly — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 16:40:10 -0800

Using google to find random personal pictures (shameless self promotion)

By: pitchblende

pitchblende — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:10:48 -0800

Here ya go Shadowkeeper. But if you change the search, you get this. Which led to this.

By: spotmeter

spotmeter — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:33:13 -0800

I've played doctor at google a few times.

By: DragonBoy

DragonBoy — Fri, 18 Oct 2002 20:16:28 -0800

When bored last Christmas at the office we started a new images.google.com game. As we never really named it, I suppose I'll title is PeepingGoogle The basic rules were this: 1. any number of players pick a person's name - generally of the opposite sex but whatever you feel attracted to. 2. Turn off the safe search on images.google.com 3. Search for the name, just the name though - no additional words and see how many images you look at before you see someone nude. Just a portion fo the body if fine. It only has to be PG-13 skin or better. 4. Repeat as often as you need. Take note of names that have low google-porn rankings so you can win next time. That was our game. It went on three times a day for the entire week between Christmas and New Years.

By: stavrosthewonderchicken

stavrosthewonderchicken — Sun, 20 Oct 2002 00:47:13 -0800

Our very own (but mostly absent these days) jedwards and myself (with the help of some Swell Pals™) invented Google Instant Messaging some time ago - sending secret messages to blogfolk using Google searches (cunningly concocted to return your messagee's website) and referrer logs (the mechanism to receive and read the messages). I'm too lazy to link it, but it was fun.

By: hot soup girl

hot soup girl — Sun, 20 Oct 2002 06:01:19 -0800

This guy has created a new poetic form: the search poem. The idea being that you type a phrase (the 'title' of the poem) into google and then make a poem from the results. The beauty of it is that you can either go defiantly anti-poem (ie. a solid block of text) or sculpt the poem (cut-up-style), discarding lines you dislike and rearranging at will. Here's one I prepared earlier. Try it; it's fun!

By: urban greeting

urban greeting — Thu, 24 Oct 2002 02:53:18 -0800

Google Whirring