Google's silent experiment .. What do you love ?

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Post by amritayannayak » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 6:47 AM UTC

Google's silent experiment .. What do you love ?
wdyl.com

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#2

Post by amritayannayak » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:06 AM UTC

The search button is shaped like a little heart .... I've never seen something like this from Google before !

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Post by Zakharov » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:09 AM UTC

I typed in "cho", and the suggested search was "choking". I was going to type in "chocolate", but ok...

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Post by Veera » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:30 AM UTC

amritayannayak wrote: post #2

The search button is shaped like a little heart .... I've never seen something like this from Google before !

I guess the intention is not to 'search' but to say that you love the terms you entered in the textbox. So, IMO the heart button looks very suitable for that.

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Post by amritayannayak » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:39 AM UTC

Veera wrote: post #4

amritayannayak wrote: post #2

The search button is shaped like a little heart .... I've never seen something like this from Google before !

I guess the intention is not to 'search' but to say that you love the terms you entered in the textbox. So, IMO the heart button looks very suitable for that.

Yeah I guess so. I seems to designed to give results for abstract things like "blue jeans" rather than a specific query like "nokia e65".

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Post by dendory » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:51 AM UTC

Why is that site registered to:

Domain wdyl.com: Margaret McLaughlin 76 Ninth Avenue New York, NY 10013 US

Nameservers: myns2.fabulous.com: 208.48.81.137 myns1.fabulous.com: 208.48.81.136

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Post by EwanToo » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 7:57 AM UTC

dendory wrote: post #6

Why is that site registered to: Domain wdyl.com: Margaret McLaughlin 76 Ninth Avenue New York, NY 10013 US Nameservers: myns2.fabulous.com: 208.48.81.137 myns1.fabulous.com: 208.48.81.136

Good question, but the original site itself exists at

http://www.google.com/whatdoyoulove/

I assume it's a Google engineer's side project which has become a bit bigger over time

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Post by growt » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 8:26 AM UTC

I had to enter "boobs" the result is just hilarious :)

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#9

Post by varjag » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 8:35 AM UTC

I tried "my wife". God, so creepy..

(I know I know, it asks "what")

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Post by lhnz » Tue, Jun 28, 2011, 9:06 AM UTC

"Free Will". The results made no sense to me.