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This would be a website on which
players of the game post the Google
query which results in the most
number of photos of tourists doing
exactly the same thing.
Points
deducted for any contaminating
photos returned with the search;
Bonus points awarded for the weight
of cliche.
For example: "Kissing the Blarney Stone"
http://images.googl...&btnG=Google+Search
[hippo, Oct 05 2004, last modified Oct 21 2004]
Another example: "Mona Lisa Louvre"
http://images.googl...&btnG=Google+Search
Here though, points would be deducted because many of the images are not pictures taken by tourists visiting the Mona Lisa at the Louvre. [hippo, Oct 05 2004]
"holding up Pisa"
http://images.googl...&btnG=Google+Search
a little slim on quantity, but I think I have you beat with the cliche bonus. [beauxeault, Oct 05 2004]
In front of Stonehenge
http://images.googl...nt+of%22+stonehenge
[krelnik, Oct 05 2004]
At the Grand Canyon
http://images.googl...&btnG=Google+Search
[hippo, Oct 05 2004]
Top of Everest
http://images.googl...ff&q=top+of+everest
[phoenix, Oct 05 2004]
Astronauts have so little imagination
http://www.cnn.com/...y/03.earth.moon.jpg
[thumbwax, Oct 05 2004]
At the top of the Empire State Building
http://images.googl...e=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
[hippo, Oct 05 2004]
Falling into the Grand Canyon
http://images.googl...+%22Grand+Canyon%22
[krelnik, Oct 05 2004]
Key West's Southernmost Point Marker
http://images.googl...+southernmost+point
But there's a military base to the south of it.... [latka, Oct 05 2004]
Top of Half Dome
http://images.googl...dome%22&sa=N&tab=wi
Yosemite [Klaatu, Oct 05 2004]
giant chicken
http://images.googl...chicken&sa=N&tab=wi
the obvious choice [roy of royworld, Nov 07 2005]
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Yes, you did
I'm also
driving at this game being a test of
Google-querying skills and a
demonstration of the humour in
people's desire to take
poor-quality photos of inanimate
objects while standing next to a
stall selling much better postcards
of the same thing. |
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I particular like the one with the large white blob obscuring the bottom of the painting, which is too dark to see anyway. |
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[DrCurry] Yes - I mean why on
earth would you post that on your
web site?
[beauxeault &
krelnik] Brilliant, and lots of cliche
points |
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The game would require a minimum word count to keep it fair. Otherwise the results might include non-tourist-y photos. |
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Conversely, there's that online "game" where you try to find the shortest search queries that produce the fewest results... |
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sorry, straying a little - whats new?... the least number of tourists. |
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never mind London, New York, Paris - whatabout those out of the way little places like: Peckham - shot of a broken window on the Nelson Mandela Estate (Only Fools and Horses) or your missus sitting on the signpost at Pratts Bottom or standing on the railway bridge at Tooting Broadway - yelling "Freedom to the People" (Citizen Smith) |
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that Mona Lisa example - would it include the one with the frame and the cut out canvas that was all over the news tonight - only kidding! |
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This a bit off topic but did anyone ever try googling "no" with incremental "o"s? i.e. "noooooooo+". |
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We've logged over 40 "o"s and still had about 10k hits. I just found it odd is all. |
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I was going to post a similar idea ("Flickr Cliche
Photo" where the object is to find the most cliched
Flickr photo - perhaps a homeless guy sitting on the
street shot in grainy black and white, or an old barn
in painfully bad HDR), and then I remembered I'd
already posted this, which is more or less the same. |
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