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Turns out we’re not just searching for “penis” here in Philadelphia! Silicon Alley Insider used Google to rank the top cities in the U.S. by number of searches for one of the seven words you can’t say on television, and little ol’ Philadelphia came in third.
Louisville, Ky., was the overall winner, and Rochester, N.Y., took second. Philly narrowly edged out Newark, N.J., and Los Angeles. On the plus side, the blog also notes that Google Trends is being used to show that Pensacola, Fla., is not so pure as a defense in an obscenity case. All we need is an ad campaign to attract pornographers to film their productions here, and the tax bucks will start rolling in.
Google: Louisville, KY Is The Most Obscene City In The U.S. [Silicon Alley Insider via Philebrity]
June 24: A Genital Country Town
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dmac | 3:28 PM | 0 Comments
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By now you’re probably familiar with Google Street View, the totally neat-o Google Maps add on that allows us to see hilarious street drug deals captured by Google’s roving camera van.
In the Philadelphia area, Google Street View contains most of Center City — with strange gaps, such as the 1500 block of Sansom Street1– as well as suburbs as far as Bristol, Wilmington and Newark.
Well, enjoy it while you can, suckers! A Pittsburgh couple is suing Google, claiming Street View “violated their privacy, devalued their property and caused them mental suffering.”
Fair enough. But, whoops, Google says apparently you can get your house off Google Street View if you want to, meaning that if this thing is publicized enough a ton of streets will be removed and the tool will be worthless. “There’s no merit to this action,” Google spokesman Larry Yu said. “It is unfortunate litigation was chosen to address the concern because we have visible tools, such as a YouTube video, to help people learn about imagery removal and an easy-to-use process to facilitate image removal.” Still, no one has explained why Google Street View was done in Pittsburgh.
Oh, and that YouTube video? Right here.
1 They also have my parents’ street, a horseshoe street near Franklin Mills, and don’t have mine, which is in Center City.
Lawsuit Claims Google Maps Violates Privacy [AP/CBS 3]
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dmac | 10:22 AM | 3 Comments
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Nov
30
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It appears DigPhilly caught wind of my little media expose about its Google Body story (uhh, yeah) and now there’s an explanatory note on the text by its author, PWD fave Teresa Masterson.
Awww, crap. It has come to my attention that the Google Body story from wired.com may really be made up… I already knew I hated certain Philadelphia bloggers. I’m ready to expand my hatred to wired.com bloggers. Suck it Bruce Sterling.
Hey, hey. Hate me, sure — unless Masterson’s referring to Dan Rubin — but wired.com’s Google Body blog entry was dated the year 2022 and featured quotes like “You know what the top two search terms are, after ‘ass’? They’re ‘aorta’ and ‘arterial plaque.’” Hating Bruce Sterling for thinking that entry is real is like hating a stop sign because it doesn’t turn green and tell you to go.
But I really enjoy the comments of another apparent NBC 10 staffer, PSUPhilly22, who states the following:
Look, if Philly and wired.com bloggers can giggle at the joke, then clearly - mission accomplished. remember, these people don’t get out much anyways - they have to do what they can for entertainment. as for the story being made up, it’d be funny if it was about a joke or something, not about a computer program. it’s like trying to joke about HTML coding - it’d be more fun to hit your hand with a hammer repeatedly.
Well, I’ll agree that the Google Body entry wasn’t funny, but it certainly spawned some hilarity. And HTML jokes are awesome. Haven’t you ever seen my page trying to validate? And remember when I left that </strike> tag open and the entire page was crossed out? Ha!
Google to show your hoo-ha to the world [DigPhilly]
Yesterday: DigPhilly Speaks Out Against Fictional Programs
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dmac | 8:45 AM | 2 Comments
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Nov
28
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Yesterday, NBC 10/DigPhilly’s Teresa Masterson reported on a pretty creepy new Google technology: Google Body, which will attempt to scan the body of every living thing on Earth. Google said they’ll be able to help companies know where to spend their research dollars and help match up organ donations. There is a way to opt out.
I don’t like to use strong language in writing, but there is no other way to describe it: This is fuuuuuucked up.
The project, known as Google Body, sees the company partnering with public transportation systems, libraries, and motor vehicle departments to place scanners in highly trafficked areas, doorways, etc., that will scan every person’s body in order to make it available to anyone.
The best part? If you don’t want people to be able to google your ass, (and yes, I mean your ass in the literal sense) you need to wear a yellow and black headband in public. I really wonder if this is a joke. I’m praying that this is a joke. But it’s not. It’s insanity masked as innovative technology.
You may have guessed it already, people: The original article on Wired’s website was a joke.
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dmac | 9:46 AM | 5 Comments
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Oct
24
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President Bush was interviewed on CNBC recently about the Internets and what, exactly, he likes about them. (Or something.)
Will Bunch is oh so excited that he can use this as an excuse to celebrate Bush’s “impending” impeachment. (Surprise, surprise.) Whatevs. The best part of this interview is not “the Google” — which is what our Commander-in-Chief called everyone’s favorite search engine — but this part (emphasis mine):
One of the things I’ve used on the Google is to pull up maps. It’s very interesting to see that. I forgot the name of the program, but you get the satellite and you can — like, I kind of like to look at the ranch on Google, reminds me of where I want to be sometimes.
That name is, of course, Google Maps. (Nevermind that this man controls all the spy satellites in the free world and he’s just using Google Maps to look at his ranch.) But, hey, Dubya, it is pretty tough to remember that the map program on Google is named “Google Maps.” Good effort. Now nobody show him Google Earth.
Google Maps | Google Earth
Googler-in-Chief [WSJ.com Blog]
Well, what else would you use on “the internets”? [Attytood]
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dmac | 10:15 AM | 1 Comment
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Oct
10
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If you hadn’t heard, yesterday Google bought YouTube for 1.65 billion dollars. (And they said you couldn’t base a business on copyright infringement.) Blinq’s Dan Rubin looks into the deal, and brings up the most important part of the whole deal, in fact, the aspect of the deal that has Wall Street buzzing today:
Will Philadelphia Will Do and the 700 Level Get to post clips of stupid local TV news tricks and Lito Sheppard’s great return?
Yeah, I was wondering what this deal meant for me, too. (Not really.) Fortunately, he then leaves it to Mark Cuban to sift though rest of the complexity of the deal. Glad to see that’s all settled.
GooTube & Yougle [Blinq]
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dmac | 10:14 AM | 0 Comments
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