Google: What do you love?

So this is just a mashup page using most of their API's, but without any real smartness to what is shown... so it ends up looking and feeling like a mashup from 5 years ago.<p>Poor execution unfortunately. A better thing to do from the outset would be: If nothing is found close that box and put it at the bottom. That would be something fractionally better than pretending it's meaningful to search for patents or use SketchUp on meaningless things.

First thing I typed in, reflexively, was "shit." To great unexpected effect.<p>Measure popularity of shit on the web. Explore shit in 3d. Buy all kinds of shit stuff. Make a photo album about shit. Watch videos of shit. Plan your shit events. Start a shit discussion group. Find shit nearby.

"Schedule a date with Emacs" --- algorithms say the darndest things.<p>But more seriously, the execution isn't that great. They could at least filter the products that don't produce useful results. At the moment, product search is only advertising its incompetence by telling me it found nothing. Also, given the built-in obviously-fill-in-the-blank screenshots and text, I'm not actually inclined to use their products.<p>Plus, for what "X" are both "Patents about X" and "Date with X" meaningful statements?

Is this anything more than one giant advertisement for all of their products? It didn't seem to actually do anything.

For me, the obvious choice was "japanese women"...<p><a href="http://www.wdyl.com/#japanese%20women" rel="nofollow">http://www.wdyl.com/#japanese%20women</a>

I was hoping I would see a beautiful visualization of what people across the world love. Instead it poured out a bunch of information. Why does this seem typically Google?

It is interesting: the hosting is indeed by an IP address that points to Google's 1e100.net, but the domain's registrant is not Google, rather an individual. Moreover, the name servers are hosted by fabulous.com. Go figure...

This is an extraordinarily entertaining thing to put rude words into.

I did really love the hit on 'something'; <a href="http://cl.ly/7z3B" rel="nofollow">http://cl.ly/7z3B</a> (jpg)

<a href="http://www.wdyl.com/#half-baked" rel="nofollow">http://www.wdyl.com/#half-baked</a> ideas<p>^ Way to not make your 3+ word searches linkable. Hmmm.

<a href="http://www.wdyl.com/#lolcats" rel="nofollow">http://www.wdyl.com/#lolcats</a> reveals that there is a patent with the word lolcats in it (<a href="http://www.google.com/patents?q=lolcats" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/patents?q=lolcats</a>)<p>But besides that and "Scour the earth for lolcats", this isn't really doing much for me. Nice try google interns.

Cool idea, but: <a href="http://www.wdyl.com/#The%20Internet" rel="nofollow">http://www.wdyl.com/#The%20Internet</a><p>Execution's a bit off.

I think most people are projecting a bigger ambition onto this than is accurate. This is not Google's revolutionary attempt at visualized search, it's a cute way to showcase all the diverse products in Google's portfolio. "What do you love? Here's what we can do for you regarding that." It's just a marketing micro-site.

Despite the criticisms, I actually think that this is the best thing that Google has turned out in the past 5 years ...

I typed in 'my wife' and Google gave me naked lady pictures. I am disappoint.

Who created this ? Some google internship ? Sorry Google, not this time

Why would I need to "Find patents about" my favorite soccer team?

I think I found an easter egg here -- try searching "my wife"

This looks like the future of domain squatter landing pages.

I want to use this with iPad like turning the page.

looks like www.123people.com (the box sections) design wise - maybe google will start to be his own landing page aggregator soon.

love the little scroll-widget on the left, beautifully done.

"Explore boobs in 3D" disappointed me.

If you didn't notice, they're actually rendering mocked images of the searches. Which is funny considering the search term I started out with.

looks like pintrest

looks like sweet.

rather bad lol most of it is a Chrome and Android advertisement also.

Man Google, you really nailed it: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/TNSKN.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/TNSKN.png</a>