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  • Google Bans Dirty Words from What Do You Love

    You may be a person that loves breasts or sex or foul language, but there’s a good bet you won’t find any of that on Google’s “What Do You Love” search engine experiment.

    Thanks to a list that’s making its way around the tubes. The list was created by Jamie Dubs of F.A.T. fame, and it features just about every kind of sexual-related euphemism you can imagine.

    For instance, in the “B” section, “bunny fucker” is listed.

    So yeah, if you want to enjoy such things, stick to a “SafeSearch off” Google Image Search. As for the list, Dubs uploaded his findings to Gist, and the list, which features 453 terms and phrases, can even be embedded. Over at the service in question — What do you love? — when such terms are entered, users are forwarded to the results page dedicated to kittens, perhaps the most-loved thing on the Internet.

    There’s also a elimination of racially-insensitive epithets and other associated terms. Google’s list also includes the slang version of the n-word that ends with an “a.” Some of the more surprising terms on the list include “viagra,” “cyalis,” which seems to be a misspelling of Cialis, which, like Viagra, is designed to treat erectile dysfunction. Oddly enough, “Cialis” is not listed as one of the banned words, and search for the correct spelling returns a WDYL page devoted to the treatment.

    For those of you who are concerned, “Goatse” is banned as well; as is the word “God,” at least according to the list.

    Banned Words

    However, a search for the term works just fine.

    Does this mean Dubs’ list is inaccurate? Not if he farmed these terms directly from Google’s source code, something he said he did. Whatever the case, these words are only banned in the “What do you love” engine, meaning they work just fine in a normal Google search. This means if you’re search for dirty sex terms, limit yourself to web and image queries. That way, you won’t be forced to look at a page dedicated to cute kittens.

  • Google’s “Different Kind of Search Experience” Officially Launched

    We recently reported on what appeared to be a new kind of search experience from Google, called “What Do You Love?”

    Google has now officially announced the project, with a bit of explanation about the reason it exists. Google’s Andy Berndt writes on the official blog:

    A while back, a few of us wanted to make a little tool that we could use to show just about anybody more of what Google makes. That led to some simple ideas, and then a few more ideas and ultimately, to a challenge: how we could connect people to products they might not know about and may find useful, but make the discovery relevant to them and keep it fun.

    Playing about with that challenge produced a website—What Do You Love?—that we hope meets at least some of the challenge by demonstrating how different Google products can show you different things about any particular search query. Like always, you’re the judge, so give it a go. Type in something that you love—polar bears, space travel, pickup trucks, Lady Gaga, early Foghat—whatever strikes your fancy (for some reason, the results for cheese always crack us up, so try that if you’re momentarily stumped). No matter what it is, we’ll give you back something that will let you get even more into what you love.

    As I demonstrated previously, results pages will show you a graphical interface with boxes for results in Image Search, Maps, Google Alerts, Patent Search, Google Trends, Product Search, Sketchup, YouTube, Books, Google Translate, Blog Search, Picasa, Google News, Google Earth, Google Mobile Search, etc. It also has boxes for various Google tools.

    For example, if I tell Google I love “hamburgers” it will also show Gmail box telling me to email somebody about hamburgers, a Google Calendar box telling me to plan an event about hamburgers, a Google Voice box telling me to call somebody about hamburgers, a Google Moderator box telling me to organize a debate about hamburgers (a fantastic idea), a Google Groups box telling me to start a hamburgers discussion group (another great idea), and a Chrome box telling me to access hamburgers stuff on the web, faster.

    What do you love?

    As far as sharing goes, you have the option to share results pages via Gmail, Google Buzz, or the +1 button. I’m still wondering when we’re going to see a straight Google+ share button. I know everybody’s talking about Google Buzz, but I hear that Google+ isn’t too shabby.

  • Google Launches a Different Kind of Search Experience

    Google has launched a site called wdyl.com. That stands for “What do you love?”. That is the all the site says with a search box and a heart button until you enter your query.

    Once you enter it, you get a different kind of search results page. The page will show you a graphical interface with boxes for results in Image Search, Maps, Google Alerts, Patent Search, Google Trends, Product Search, Sketchup, YouTube, Books, Google Translate, Blog Search, Picasa, Google News, Google Earth, Google Mobile Search, etc. It also has boxes for various Google tools.

    For example, if I tell Google I love “hamburgers” it will also show Gmail box telling me to email somebody about hamburgers, a Google Calendar box telling me to plan an event about hamburgers, a Google Voice box telling me to call somebody about hamburgers, a Google Moderator box telling me to organize a debate about hamburgers (a fantastic idea), a Google Groups box telling me to start a hamburgers discussion group (another great idea), and a Chrome box telling me to access hamburgers stuff on the web, faster.

    What do you love?

    The whole thing is nice and social too. You can share using all kinds of services like Gmail, Google Buzz, and…oh wait, that’s all.

    Hat tip to MG Siegler at TechCrunch for first reporting on this, after receiving a tip from Xoogler (or ex-Googler) Antonio Alger. On a side note, if you Google “xoogler,” Google assumes you meant “Google” and automatically shows results for that.

    It’s not clear if Google is really ready for this to be widely seen. Google hasn’t officially announced it at this point.