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Google Knows Where You Live.

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    a couple years ago i was pissed because we weren't getting the cool shit i read about in sci-fi novels as a kid

    but all of the sudden here it is

    and fuck if it isn't just affordable, but most of it is goddamned free

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    lostwordslostwords Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    An acquaintance from high school is project manager of google desktop. He basically only gets about 10 hours of sleep a week, but flies around all over the world getting people excited about google desktop and basically orders around dudes twice his age. I want to be him.

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    a couple years ago i was pissed because we weren't getting the cool shit i read about in sci-fi novels as a kid

    but all of the sudden here it is

    and fuck if it isn't just affordable, but most of it is goddamned free

    all you need is a portable compudeck and to be in a large city like San Fransisco, and GoogleCom will electronically beam the InfoNet for free directly into your Deck

    you can look up any business you can think of, based on your Personal Coordinates, and it will automatically dial you directly to them through your Portaphone.

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    that's the fucking rad thing!

    the scenario you just described isn't that farfetched anymore!

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    wait a cotton pickin' minute

    aside from the silly terminology, the scenario you describe is available right this second

    which i'm pretty sure was your original point

    that i missed until right this second

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    misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Oh, and the "Google will setup the call for you" is even better than it sounds, because it is FREE LONG-DISTANCE! If you use a cell, standard airtime charges apply, but you can call LA from MA for the same as a local charge!

    I just don't get how Google can do this shit... I mean, for this to have been made, this means a bunch of guys literally just drove around, probably for DAYS, taking billions of photos... I mean, fuck! I want to get paid to do that!

    This is awesome, but now, I suddenly have chills... I mean, imagine being able to do a search for someone, and then finding their house... I dunno, something sounds very scary about that..

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    misbehavin wrote: »
    Oh, and the "Google will setup the call for you" is even better than it sounds, because it is FREE LONG-DISTANCE! If you use a cell, standard airtime charges apply, but you can call LA from MA for the same as a local charge!

    I just don't get how Google can do this shit... I mean, for this to have been made, this means a bunch of guys literally just drove around, probably for DAYS, taking billions of photos... I mean, fuck! I want to get paid to do that!

    This is awesome, but now, I suddenly have chills... I mean, imagine being able to do a search for someone, and then finding their house... I dunno, something sounds very scary about that..

    www.whitepages.com

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    google has some sort of phone service thing

    where you can talk into the phone and have it do searches for you for numbers

    i don't remember all the details, my friend was showing me it a month back or so to order a pizza and i wasn't completely there, mentally

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    misbehavin wrote: »
    Oh, and the "Google will setup the call for you" is even better than it sounds, because it is FREE LONG-DISTANCE! If you use a cell, standard airtime charges apply, but you can call LA from MA for the same as a local charge!

    I just don't get how Google can do this shit... I mean, for this to have been made, this means a bunch of guys literally just drove around, probably for DAYS, taking billions of photos... I mean, fuck! I want to get paid to do that!

    This is awesome, but now, I suddenly have chills... I mean, imagine being able to do a search for someone, and then finding their house... I dunno, something sounds very scary about that..

    I don't think it was just a bunch of dudes in the back of some google hippy's subaru with their Nikkon COolpix, dude

    pretty damn sure they set up a 360 degree camera system tied into a gps unit that took pictures every set distance and relayed it back to the server where it was all sorted out

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    potatoe wrote: »
    google has some sort of phone service thing

    where you can talk into the phone and have it do searches for you for numbers

    i don't remember all the details, my friend was showing me it a month back or so to order a pizza and i wasn't completely there, mentally

    goddamn

    is there like a comprehensive list of all the google services

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    google has some sort of phone service thing

    where you can talk into the phone and have it do searches for you for numbers

    i don't remember all the details, my friend was showing me it a month back or so to order a pizza and i wasn't completely there, mentally

    goddamn

    is there like a comprehensive list of all the google services


    yeah

    google.com

    the bar at the top, click on "more"

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    i checked their home page and it's just an empty page that says Google and there's a text box

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    probably the worst web page i ever saw

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
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    SaniusSanius Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    sweet I can check out license plates with this bitch.

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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    what amazes me is the quality of the 360 view

    how do those cameras work, anyway?

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    oh here's where they're hiding the good, crazy shit

    http://labs.google.com/

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    seriously, though, what shit don't they have for free?

    Ultra-comprehensive directory with directions, stret maps and now nearly 3d walking tours of major cities?

    check

    Spreadsheets and word processors?

    check

    3d modeling programs?

    check

    auto-indexing image browsing program?

    check

    and on and on and on

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    oh here's where they're hiding the good, crazy shit

    http://labs.google.com/

    woah

    http://www.google.com/trends/music

    googletalk people have terrible, terrible taste

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    oh yeah, google trends

    http://www.google.com/trends?q=goatse%2C+tubgirl&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

    i wonder what caused the goatse spike at the end of '05

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    1-800-GOOG-411

    that was the thing

    it was cool, all ordering pizza without having to look up the phone number

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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    oh fuck

    there goes the next few days of free time i have

    http://labs.google.com/papers.html

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    misbehavinmisbehavin Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    For the guy that said whitepages... I meant photos of my house. Plus, you can be unlisted in the phonebook and the phonebook isn't sorted by address but rather name, and you can't be unlisted from an image-set like this.

    Also, the service you mentioned was Goog411...

    http://labs.google.com/goog411/
    1-800-GOOG-411

    And the only service they charge for that I can think of is Google Answers:

    http://answers.google.com/answers/

    And also, Google is amazing, don't get me wrong, but the aggregation of information is starting to enter the realm of somewhat scary (but still neat).

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
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    KnobKnob TURN THE BEAT BACK InternetModerator mod
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    oh here's where they're hiding the good, crazy shit

    http://labs.google.com/

    woah

    http://www.google.com/trends/music

    googletalk people have terrible, terrible taste

    what the fuck

    http://www.google.com/trends/music?genre=all&where=MEX


    no doubt?

    nirvana?

    jesus, mexico, come on

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited May 2007
    Knob wrote: »
    oh fuck

    there goes the next few days of free time i have

    http://labs.google.com/papers.html

    yeah, my fiancee uses that all the damn time

    it's pretty much required for any university student who is pursuing any sort of research science degree

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    redheadredhead Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    that ride finder thing is a cool idea as well

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    jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    They have had map search (find Xyz in this map view) and the "call this number for me" thing for quite a while actually.

    Google maps dogg.

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    scarlet ave.scarlet ave. Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    redhead wrote: »
    I love how google spends half their time on useful products like their online text editor, and the other half on what basically amounts to technology porn for the middle class. Like this.
    I think you might be being sarcastic but I actually do love this.

    I don't even know anymore.

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    jwalkjwalk Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Magicawe wrote: »
    jwalk wrote: »
    potatoe wrote: »
    google's satellite pic for my house is out of date

    it has a tree that got cut down years ago

    they lose
    the pictures aren't real-time

    I would love to kill you.
    You laugh, but I was looking at Google Earth one day and someone walking by goes "hey I'm gonna go outside and wave tell me if you can see me!"

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    Fuck the Earth man, I'm totally going to find some choice land on Mars.

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    Skull ManSkull Man RIP KUSU Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    BYToady wrote: »
    Fuck the Earth man, I'm totally going to find some choice land on Mars.

    holy

    shit a brick

    fuck

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    potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    hahahahaha

    wonderful

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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    The melnorme are going to pay big credits to know the location of this world.

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    DogDog Registered User, Administrator, Vanilla Staff admin
    edited May 2007
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    BYToadyBYToady Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    One day, Google will take over the world and we'll be able to google things like "What did I have for lunch yesterday?" and the logging engine will search through the chemical analysis of your feces downloaded from your Gtoiliet and let you know you had corn.

    For some reason, corn is always listed.

    That day will be awesome.

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    Sgt EversmanSgt Eversman Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    ocean-drive.jpg

    ;-)

    seriously, did anybody get this

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    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

    Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
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    FaricazyFaricazy Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    vice city?

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    Sgt EversmanSgt Eversman Registered User regular
    edited May 2007
    thank you. jesus.

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    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner.

    Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome.
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    TankHammerTankHammer Atlanta Ghostbuster Atlanta, GARegistered User regular
    edited May 2007
    What a coincidence! I recently took a 1600-mile round-trip road-trip. Can I actually upload pictures? We got over 300 of them, most of them in the car.

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