Goollery http://www.goollery.org is an online gallery dedicated to collect, archive and showcase the most creative, fun and innovative Google-related projects from around the world.
It's an unofficial project led by Googlers Ji Lee and Andrew Bonventre, but also Jeanelle Mak, Francisco Hui and Karishma Sheth.
Side note: There was another Goollery project in Blogoscoped archive, http://www.wirzm.ch/goollery from 2004, a Gmail-based photo gallery written in PHP http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_10_08_index.html#10972535666817 |
Here are a couple of my submissions to submissionsgoollery.org:
Google Image Quiz – http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/imagequiz/ You'll be seeing an image search result, and have to guess the search term (a little game of mine)
The Google Adventure – http://blogoscoped.com/googleadventure/ A choose-your-own-adventure game taking place in the Googleplex
eBads, the eBay AdSense Ads Search Game – http://www.dealcafe.com/funnies/searchgame.html "To play, search Google and get points when you find a funny eBay ad"
What's Searched For More? – http://blogoscoped.com/searchedmore/ Faced with two terms, you have to guess which is more popular... the solution will be presented in Google Trends.
Googlewhack – http://www.googlewhack.com/ The classic game of googlewhacking, which consists of trying to find a Google search query for two terms from the dictionary resulting in exactly one result
The Google Snake Game – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-10-09-n36.html A party game involving Google.
55 Ways to Have Fun With Google – http://www.55fun.com My book and free ebook collecting 55 fun Google-related projects, experiments, jokes and more... might be containing stuff for your site, too. (It's also available for full reading at Google Books.)
Google Rotated – http://blogoscoped.com/rotated/ This page shows a working Google in rotated form, but works in Internet Explorer only
Mini Google – http://blogoscoped.com/mini.html This page on the other hand shows a working Google in mini form, but works in Internet Explorer only
What Did I Search for? – http://www.gamesforthebrain.com/game/whatsearch/ Guess what was being searched for by looking at the search result page
Google Fight – http://www.googlefight.com/ Pitch two terms against each other and see which one is more popular in Google
Google Battle – http://www.googlebattle.com/ Let two terms battle it out against each other (similar to above)
End Game – http://www.gmworldwar.com/news.php Play world war on Google Maps
Googlopoly – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-06-16-n23.html Not the Monopoly you might know...
The Google Natural Number Game – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2009-08-19-n40.html "What is the smallest natural number which when Googled produces no results? e.g. 155253458363"
The Gmail Memory Chain Game – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-03-13-n54.html It's a game of Chinese Whispers, but played with Google's mail client
The Google Zeitgeist Game – http://simonjjames.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-google-zeitgeist-game.html Your task is to pick the top 15 queries from the list – pick any date from Google's Hot Trends archive – and build a little story using those words or phrases in order.
The "You Look Like" Google Game – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-08-11.html#n82 A variant of the egogoogling game "name is" is to search for "name looks like".
The Google Goose – http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2006-11-23-n24.html A Google Images based art project that was showcased at Vienna |