Saturday, March 5, 2011

Sloppy Google: What If Google Got Lazy? (VIDEO)

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Google does a lot of interesting stuff, but nothing quite like "Sloppy Google." The project, which is a mash-up of html5 canvas, javascript, processing.js, jQuery, Google Search API, according to the site's about page, aims to help people reimagine how the web could work. It's also a lot of fun to see what types of results it comes up with. The modified search engine frequently misspells words, returns random results, and in generally sloppy. The "hand-drawn" interface also transforms in odd ways. The lazy google search plays on the concept of a real human being behind the machine, manually doing searches, reports TechCrunch. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is always out of service.

Check out Sloppy Google for yourself here.

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