New Googlegame idea

Wednesday, September 15, 2004 » thought

I'm always trying to come up with fantastic games to play using everyone's favorite search engine (specifically, its image search), and I think this one is promising. It's similar to a scavenger hunt: You pick a word, put it into the image search, and then score points by checking off a list of categories based on the results. Possible categories could be (and this is just off the top of my head): portrait, animal, landscape, news photo, comic strip, animated gif, MS Paint, screen capture, poorly-drawn anime character, photo with timestamp, something on fire, angsty LiveJournal user, Christopher Walken, poorly-drawn anime sex, and horrific wound or sore. There could also be some kind of score multiplier based on how much your word has to do with the item on the list. Also, if you ever catch someone playing this game, you should probably kill them. It's for their own good.