Google Bumps Up Search a Notch With Google Nose BETA 66
coastin writes "The folks at Google Labs have launched a new way to search with Google Nose BETA. The new condensation in search will have you "Coming to your senses" where you can go beyond type, talk, and touch for a new notation of sensation. Get acquainted with Your internet sommelier, expertly curated Knowledge Panels pair images, descriptions, and aromas. Take a whiff of the Google Aromabase — 15M+ scentibytes. Don't ask, don't smell! For when you're wary of your query — SafeSearch included. What's that smell? Google Nose BETA leverages new and existing technologies to offer the sharpest olfactory experience available with: Street Sense (vehicles have inhaled and indexed millions of atmospheric miles), Android Ambient Odor Detection (collects smells via the world's most sensible mobile operating system), and SMELLCD 1.8+ (high-resolution compatible for precise and controlled odors)"
Svefg cbfg (Score:5, Insightful)
Svefg cbfg! V'z fcrpvny.
Re:Svefg cbfg (Score:5, Funny)
BZT Cbavrf!
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Re:Svefg cbfg (Score:4, Informative)
slashdot decided it would be really droll... err... funny, to ROT13 the articles, so users are ROT13'ing their posts.
My post that you replied to was "OMG Ponies!" ROT13'ed, referencing an older (and better) April Fools joke.
Re:Svefg cbfg (Score:4, Funny)
slashdot decided it would be really droll... err... funny, to ROT13 the articles, so users are ROT13'ing their posts.
Personally, I don't find ROT13 to be very secure. As a result, I *always* double ROT13 my posts, for maximum security.
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Insights are old hat. Now, it's inscents. Didn't you read TFA?
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Yeah... this has to be the most boring & tedious April fools joke ever.
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As far as I'm concerned, this is Slashdot's way of saying that they don't want me frequenting the site and reading the posted articles today. I'm happy to oblige you Slashdot. See you tomorrow. Maybe.
Signing off.
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eh. You can actually find them UnROT'ed in the firehose.
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How many rot-13 widgets on the web will be /.'d today?
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tr "a-zA-Z" "n-za-mN-ZA-M"
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Make sure you don't export that. I think ROT-13 is still classified as a weapon by the US Government.
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V erfrzoyr gung erznex.
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somebody should come up with a ROT13 Goatse link as retaliation
Re:Play a good April Fools joke for once (Score:5, Funny)
At least it protects you from reading the rest of the april fools jokes.
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I agree. Monday is hard enough without having to decrypt Slashdot articles.
I used to enjoy playing around with cryptography and letter substitution when I was 12, but I've since matured enough to understand that in most cases it is more trouble than it is worth. As an April fools joke, it is childish, at best. Perhaps the adults will be back in charge tomorrow...
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Yeah, everyone knows that Google Labs doesn't exist.
What happened? (Score:4, Interesting)
I just figured out Firefox no longer has a ROT13 viewer/editor.
This used to be a standard feature in browsers. When did Firefox lose it? I looked in about:config but there were no "ROT13" parameters. Is there a way to re-enable it?
Re:What happened? (Score:5, Informative)
The built-in ROT13 feature was causing the author of Leet Key [mozilla.org] to complain about Mozilla choking his source of fame. Therefore, they had to remove it.
Ok (Score:2)
This is about as lame as my dad saying "cool, dude, awesome, and cowabunga" when I was a teenager. Stop the madness!
Unun, irel shaal. (Score:1)
uggc://jjj.ebg13.pbz/vaqrk.cuc
ROT13 translator (Score:3)
Using this now:
http://www.degraeve.com/rot13.php [degraeve.com]
Limping through /. front page.
As April Fool's official trolls go, this isn't bad. But no goatse. What gives?
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Holy crap, you can't just click on the link below the summary to ROT13 it?
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Seriously. You don't even have to be logged in! Anyone running for rot13 translators got fooled today.
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>Anyone running for rot13 translators got fooled today. ...until the g33kz replied in rot13...
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Perfect April Fools (Score:2)
A circle of trolls trolling one another? Starting with /. management.
f*ch this noise (Score:1)
slashdot has become useless for a day
The beach (Score:2)
The link takes me to a Nose search for "The Beach". Seinfeld/Kramer reference or something else?
There is a product here! (Score:1)
Girls would like this, they could discreetly identify someone's perfume. People who collect flowers, insects, etc., could identify them too.
I find it funny that when it comes to technology it is getting harder to call something that can be quantified absurd, outrageous or even conspiracy.
Perhaps this is a reverse April Fools...it makes fools out of those that think its foolish.
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Ohhh-kay. It would be cool. And, it would have some cool uses. But, HTF are you going to make it work? You've got to store a bunch of aromatic chemicals, to be released in the right combination, on demand. Hmmm - a Lemon Pledge sized can of aromatics, attached to an electronic device. Wow. Can anyone spell "Terrorist Hijacking"? And, I'm not even touching on the program that's going to mix those aromatics up in the proper proportions, for release into the atmosphere for your sniffing pleasure.
pheromones (Score:3)
This will inevitably lead to a new kind of pr0n on the interwebs. Send your musk by email. Synchronize your periods on facebook. And that guy whose handle is "mustyballsack"? You don't want to know.
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as if anyone here has showered in a week
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You demand recourse? Then run around the track, and do it again. No sweat here.
I preferred the ponies (Score:2)
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Good timing, Google! (Score:1)
Google Nose, right after shutting down Google Reader, which showed that Google's shit does, in fact, stink.
This posting is encrypted. (Score:3)
ditto - not in the mood (Score:1)
Better not get attached (Score:2)
Am I the only one who finds this less amusing than it could be, given Google's astounding lack of foresight on killing Reader and other services? I'm surprised they didn't put a disclaimer on Google Nose saying "Google Nose will be closing April 2, 2013."
Tricorder (Score:2)
Actually, a sense of "smell" in an Andrioid device is the one missing hardware feature that prevents us from implementing a Trek tricorder on one. In the original series, they were always using it to do some kind of chemical analysis. You could even do some medical analysis that way, without the primitive animal assistance [wikipedia.org] that currently requires..
I can't wait for the apps!
Congested... (Score:2)
Emacs to the rescue (Score:2)
I think this is the first time I've used the Emacs m-x rot13-region command.
Yeah... about that. (Score:1)
Lame (Score:2)
All the April Fools jokes suck this year. Even Google's is obvious and lame. I seriously think the fact that it's on Monday has a lot to do with it.
Nothing new under the sun (Score:1)
News? This has already been around for almost 20 years.
http://web.archive.org/web/19970416020233/http://realaroma.com [archive.org]
Google Nose (Score:1)