Why Should You Feel Lucky Today?

Who says today is a lucky day? ... Why should you feel lucky today, and not me? ... What are they, just handing out luck? ... Anybody can be lucky, is that what you're telling me?

It's not exactly news that you can find, virtually, anything out on the World Wide Web.

So, if you happen to be Orthodox Jewish, that means you have your very own Google.

Or, to be correct, Koogle!



We espied this gem, out on Open Salon, from Luland Phoebe;

Shalom Kosher Koogle

What to do you if you are a devoutly religious ultra-Orthodox Jew, one of 800,000 or so in Israel and Rabbinic laws have forbidden you from surfing the great satan internet? How are you going to buy that new Tallit from Lands End Talit.com?

Fortunately, the Rabbis came up with a gem of an idea. Meet Kosher Google Koogle.

Koogle will not allow you to venture to places where one can look at women in immodest attire. You can't purchase items that are verboten. Koogle will not allow you to buy anything on the Sabbath. It just won't work. Kind of like having an itty- bitty little Rabbi on your shoulder at all times. That shouldn't scare anyone at all.

[snip]

So this begs the question. Where are these truly utra-Orthodox Jews using these forbidden computers if they are not allowed to own one?

And, no, it doesn't appear that there is a "I'm Feeling Lucky" box.


More Koogle

Koogle, a kosher Google, launches

Nothing can be posted on Saturdays, the Jewish Sabbath, as Jews are banned from all types of work and business activity. If Koogle users attempt to search for an item or post a message on the Sabbath, it crashes and won’t let you.

The label ‘Koogle’ is a play on the name of a Jewish noodle pudding dish, known as kugel, and Google, the search market leader.

Israeli company launches kosher search engine Koogle

Koogle is not a filter for surfers who want to access secular websites. Rather, it is a compilation of Israeli resources deemed inoffensive by the administrators. It includes news, business directories and links to realtors, kosher restaurants, hotels as well as mohels, or ritual circumcisers, and rehab centers.

Kosher Google Makes Debut as Koogle

Koogle also was the brand name for a flavored peanut butter marketed by Kraft Foods in 1971 but later was discontinued

Top Ten Cloves: Ways Google Can Provide Better Day Care

News Item: On Day Care, Google Makes a Rare Fumble

10. Out with the "organic, natural" food and in with cheaper McDonald's Happy Meals!

9. Offset cost for parents by renting the Google Day Care kids out as focus groups

8. Make the kids generate revenue - put'em to work on the Google Phone

7. Send the kids out on the grounds of the Google Campus, collecting bugs, and then announce the new "Google Gas" (but only in Beta-Mode, fill-ups by Invite-Only)

6. Resolve Viacom dispute with own content - Start putting a daily "Best of Google Day Care Bloopers" up on YouTube

5. Hire Chuck Norris to run the program - Just his staring at it will make it perform better

4. Cut down on Waiting List and notify parents of acceptance by having them hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" search bar

3. Weed out any of the toddlers who have been using Google Earth for "pool parties"

2. Sponsor multi-million-dollar contest - Google Day Care Preschoolers vs. John McCain, on using the Internet

1. Public Service - Have them do a group "Not Alex" commercial

Good Post Alert: How Google Got Its Colorful Logo

The Garlic has gotten a lot of mileage with Google (one such post - our first Google riff - is in today's This Date ... On The Garlic), including a good one, on their infamous "I'm Feeling Lucky" bar.

Earlier this week, The Garlic stumbled onto a post (H/T to Good Morning Silicon Valley), on the development, and numerous iterations of the infamous logo

From Wired Magazine's Sonia Zjawinski "How Google Got Its Colorful Logo";

"In just a few short years, Google's logo has become as recognizable as Nike's swoosh and NBC's peacock. Ruth Kedar, the graphic designer who developed the now-famous logo, shows the iterations that led to the instantly recognizable primary colors and Catull typeface that define the Google brand. Kedar met Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page through a mutual friend nine years ago at Stanford University, where she was an assistant professor. Page and Brin, who were having trouble coming up with a logo for their soon-to-launch search engine, asked Kedar to come up with some prototypes. "I had no idea at the time that Google would become as ubiquitous as it is today, or that their success would be of such magnitude," Kedar says.

It's an eight-page image display, with descriptions of each iteration, what was right or wrong about it, some of the changes so infinitesimal, it's like a head-scratching WTF!.

In all, it's an entertaining look at something that has become so engrained in our daily lives, our every minute on the World Wide Web, the logo encompassing the company name, that, much to Larry and Sergey's consternation, has become a verb all over the globe.

Check out "How Google Got Its Colorful Logo"


Bonus Google Riffs

ThinkProgress: Bush says he uses “the Google.”

Google Fires Executive Chef; Caught Searching Recipes On Yahoo, MSN

Stymied By Publishers, Google To Digitize Bazooka Joe Comics

Google Launches Lobbyist; As Usual, In Beta-Mode and By-Invite Only

Top Ten Cloves: Reasons Google Needs A Lobbyist

Google May Come To Terms With Publishers; Will Digitize Cliff Notes Only

Google Begins Talks With White House To Digitize Wiretaps

Top Ten Cloves: Other Great Things You'll Get Using Google's New Retooled Search Engine

News Item: Seeking more traffic, Google widens format

10. If you are an illegal alien, when you finish your search, PRESTO!, you are now a full, naturalized U.S. citizen

9. Since we've already digitized the Bazooka Joe Comics, set your filter to conduct your search as Bazooka Joe (try it, it's fun)

8. One of the coolest features is that you can set filters to reset your entire life to "beta-mode"

7. Warning: We believe that George Soros may be a Google user, so, you run the risk of getting smeared by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly

6. Based on how ruthless you are with your searches, Google may contact you about becoming a Google Lobbyist

5. If you are a fan of Senator Ted Stevens, turn on the sound feature to hear your search clanging through the pipes

4. Warning: We are only retooling the Google Search Engine, not "The Google", that President Bush uses

3. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" search could make you really, really lucky - Random searches placed in lottery for Google stock

2. It's not on the system yet, but coming soon is all you will have to do is think about the search and your browser will automatically go to Google with all the results

1. Don't be alarmed ... If you search for the wrong thing, you'll hear Vice President Dick Cheney's voice telling you "Frankly, you're out of line with that question."