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Title: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: bill on March 07, 2013, 04:18:36 AM
I had not seen this one before. How long has this been around? I can't believe CollegeHumor.com was the first to find this.

Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
http://www.collegehumor.com/article/6875829/google-drive-list-generator-is-both-cool-and-creepy
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: Rooftop on March 07, 2013, 12:01:58 PM
Definitely both weird and creepy... although quite funny with swear words!
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: Chunkford on March 07, 2013, 01:25:31 PM
ooooo, might be a good way too see what G thinks are related terms for writing articles :D
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: rcjordan on March 07, 2013, 04:20:09 PM
WTF!?!?!  Damn, I knew I was hanging around here for some reason other than hearing you fuckers whine and bitch about how much you weigh.

Thanks, Bill. I owe you dinner.
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: ergophobe on March 07, 2013, 05:49:02 PM
Forgot about that.

I will say that my experiments with slightly less obvious keywords than types of alcohol and types of dogs did not yield very useful results.
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: rcjordan on March 07, 2013, 07:11:12 PM
It works well for a quick, self-storing kw research scratchpad --which is perfect for my work habits. But, you're right, you need to know kws and kw combos to really make any use of it.  Except for foreign-language phrases. Mine churned up a bunch of UK English and German kws right away.
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: DrCool on March 07, 2013, 09:15:30 PM
I remember seeing this a couple months ago in an article about various other Google Drive tricks similar to this. I will see if I can dig up that article.
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: DrCool on March 07, 2013, 09:49:27 PM
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-sets-still-available.html
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: bill on March 08, 2013, 05:10:21 AM
thanks drcool you just cost me a dinner!  >:(

I knew this one couldn't have been something new though. I'm going to replace my old Google Sets bookmark with that blog post now.
Title: Re: Google Drive List Generator Is Both Cool and Creepy
Post by: Adam C on March 08, 2013, 09:42:05 AM
yeah, something to do with one of the old Google Labs experiments.  Google Lists or Groups or something like that.  Was seen as a keyword research tool for semantic relationships for a while.

Quote from: drcool on March 07, 2013, 09:49:27 PM
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2012/11/google-sets-still-available.html

What he said.  Google Sets.