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by Adam at 7:35 PM on October 24, 2004

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Update: A lot of new search engine traffic here recently. Please note that this post is not about the new Google Talk VOIP / IM client. It is about a funny Google hack that uses the famous search engine to try and complete a sentence that you start. Sorry if this isn’t what you’re looking for, but I hope you enjoy the post anyway. :-) (added by Adam on 8/26/2005)

Douwe Osinga, a Google employee, has accumulated a bunch of interesting Google hacks for you to try. The most amusing of these, I think, is “Google Talk.” He describes it thusly:

Use Google talk by entering three or four words below. The system will search for this sentence at Google, find the next word and print that. Than it will remove the first word of the search string, add the found word and repeat. The result seems to be meaningfull sometimes. Other times it is giblish. But always fun.

Putting in “Ask not what your country” got me this:

Ask not what your country can DO for you; What can I do With a Major In. chemistry or biochemistry and Molecular biology, at the University of Michigan.

I think I have a new favorite time waster. :-D

Adam is a web developer and graphic designer who lives and works in south-central Kansas. He likes to speak his mind, both here and in his business blog. He only rarely writes about himself in the third person, honest. If you’d like to work with Adam, drop him a line.

14 Comments

  1. A great deal of fun can be had by feeding the beginnings of song lyrics to Google Talk. It did pretty well with “Mrs. Robinson” until it veered off into S&M Land, never to return…

    Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio A nation turns its lonely eyes to you) woo woo, woo woo, woo spank Spank, woo, woo, woo woo, woo spank Spank, woo, woo, woo woo, woo spank Spank…

    …and so on.

    Comment by Adam M. — October 25, 2004 @ 6:34 pm

  2. bravo!

    Comment by jilal — January 23, 2005 @ 3:43 pm

  3. J-low is a

    Comment by mmmaaarrr — April 17, 2005 @ 8:37 am

  4. brad pitt is a

    Comment by mmmaaarrr — April 17, 2005 @ 8:38 am

  5. Let’s see what mmmaaarrr’s prompts get us from Google Talk.

    J-low is a…

    J-low is a diva You can find out what s he is not here; he is shown as a white person. and a person who has everything. I need I? need I need I need I need I need I need I need I need I need I need I need I need…

    Given the rumors about Jennifer Lopez’s extensive backstage demands, that’s pretty damned funny. :D

    Brad Pitt is a…

    Brad Pitt is a good actor and I think he is a good man He was a lion. And a tiger: mixed. bred for its skills in magic. Napoleon Dynamite I had heard a lot about the history of the internet. The Internet is, a very important part of the New Zealand Department of Conservation and Natural Resources management The training course is conducted, in Spanish and English.

    You heard it here first, folks. Brad Pitt is actually a big cat bread by the New Zealand Department of Conservation for his skills in bilingual magic. And, um, something about the Internet.

    Comment by Adam Messinger — April 17, 2005 @ 1:08 pm

  6. You should try GoogleTalk revisited.

    http://relet.net/gtr

    Comment by ravn — April 29, 2005 @ 6:25 am

  7. I tried it, ravn, but it doesn’t seem to be doing anything in either Firefox or Internet Explorer.

    Comment by Adam Messinger — April 29, 2005 @ 10:13 am

  8. That’s strange.. I use Firefox too. Have you picked a very difficult sentence maybe? I believe it is different from GoogleTalk insofar as what you type in as a starter has to be “findable” by google. Common phrases seem to work best.

    At least it should show the result page with your phrase and three dots in bold if there is no result.

    It’s gotten our favourite toy here at the office by now.. =)

    Comment by ravn — April 29, 2005 @ 10:59 am

  9. On sunday I…
    On sunday I spent the full day in the field for the implementation of internationalized regular expressions for all of the five o’clock speakers bureau and has presented at various national conferences since the nfl coach departed iu

    http://www.relet.net/gtr/gtdb.php?id=117

    Comment by ravn — April 29, 2005 @ 11:06 am

  10. You were right — I was giving it starter phrases that were too complicated. I was trying to use the “Mrs. Robinson” example from above, which I’d started with “Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio…”

    I tried some simpler phrases and got impressive results. Where GTR really seems to shine is in producing more grammatically sensible, shorter responses than the original. In other words, it doesn’t babble.

    J-Lo is a…

    J-Lo is a competent presence, there is no journey to her performance. she is able to perform the duties of an employee to report for duty at your nearest arms control group.

    J-Lo is a…

    J-Lo is a goddess who acts as messenger when assigned; performs routine maintenance checks on equipment; observes patient during transportation and the solution to these problems

    Brad Pitt is a…

    Brad Pitt is a good choice. but it’s not like the giants of old, you see.

    Ask not what…

    Ask not what you did with your first. though your first usually isn’t surrounded by cameras and tape recorders and snatching their handbags.

    Where have you gone…

    Where have you gone joe montana sports talk football, art alive!, taz-mania,

    Good stuff! Job well done, ravn. :D

    Comment by Adam Messinger — April 29, 2005 @ 10:03 pm

  11. a day in taos

    Comment by monica mondragon — May 4, 2005 @ 8:57 am

  12. Jude Law is a…

    Comment by Charli Vetter — May 4, 2005 @ 1:19 pm

  13. music download service or Wi-Fi mega ISP? Is it along the same lines of humor as Google’s Pigeon Rank? I reckon we’ll all have to wait until tomorrow and see. In the meantime, here are some more sites centered around the Google Talk word game : 8 Ways to Sunday , Naver, and Milk & Cookies. Posted by — Loren Baker, Editor @ 8:59 am

    Pingback by Search Engine Journal — August 23, 2005 @ 3:37 pm

  14. se debe a movimientos estratégicos de Microsoft para posicionarse y prepararse mejor, ya que se ha empezado a correr el rumor de que Google estaría planeando entrar al mercado del IM con un servicio basado en la tecnología open source Jabber: Google Talk . [IMG] Y hablando de movimientos rápidos, Google decidió también hacer publica la Beta 2 de su motor de búsquedas para computadoras personales Google Desktop Search 2 Beta. Y sin duda que van un paso adelante, ya que mientras las versiones más

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