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69 pointsfrostmatthew32 comments

This appears to be broken. After going a few rounds and getting nothing right, I "cheated" in another window, and it was still marking everything wrong.

Same. Fun idea, though. I wonder if the answers are tied to someone with a specific search history?

edit: seems to be working better now.

I think the autocomplete suggestions are region specific and possible linked to your Google account. Were you logged in?

I got the same question twice, answers that were right the first time (and obvious) weren't included the second time. Fun concept, though, it'd be interesting to play multiplayer.

It seems that they have hit a daily API limit of some kind. If you enter a space you get the top option right for every question.

Yeah, I got "Indiana Jones and the" and entered three of the movie names. It said they were all incorrect.

Try an incognito window, and through that go to google.com/ncr to get US-only results.

Someone got owned:

    var minhighscore = STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!;
    var hsl = {
        "scores": 
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "STOP REMOVING ME AND I WILL HELP YOU FIX IT!",
            "99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999",
            "60000",
            "60000"
        ],
        "names": [false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false, false],
        "times": [1426140797, 1426140808, 1426140809, 1426140810, 1426140811, 1426140812, 1426140813, 1426140814, 1426140817, 1426140817, 1426140744, 1426140770, 1426140788]
    };

I looked through the code, and it looks like there is ZERO back-end validation for this request:

    jQuery.ajax({
                url: "submiths.php",
                data: {
                    highscore: '99999999999999',
                    highscorename: 'someone',
                    hsl: 'foo',
                    stime: 'bar'
                },
                success: function(data) {
                    jQuery("#answerkey").html(data);
                }
            });

Yup that was me.

The only problem I have with this is that it's wrong[0], but it's still kinda fun.

[0] I clicked on a category and it said "I think I have", so I cheated and typed into Google "I think I have" and looked at the top suggestions from Google. But when I entered the top suggestion from Google into this website, this website said I had entered the #2 suggestion. And when I entered another suggestion straight from Google, the website said it was wrong.

This is due to Google's search personalization, and/or because I'm betting this site is using Google's custom search API, which often returns fairly different results from normal search.

I did a few rounds and something like 'coffee is too' and my answers 'hot' 'dark' 'weak' all resulted in fails. unless its search a different language i don't think this is regional.

Try google.com/custom to get more deterministic results, although it seems like they might have changed that as well.

Was working for about ten minutes. But now isn't showing any answers, thus marking all answers as wrong.

EDIT: Definitely a fun game and great concept though!

I thought this said GoogleFreud. I clicked hoping that my searches would have some judgment or analysis along side the results.

  Search: Is calorie counting actually useful?
  Result: Does Counting Calories Actually Count? [nutrition.org]
  Freud: Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

That would be a funny side project

Everything is being marked as wrong. Not great.

There is actually a whole board game based on autocomplete results[1] which is like a cross between Balderdash and Cards Against Humanity. Players create their own autocomplete results and then try to guess the real one. This review is pretty accurate: One of the best elements of this game is the sociological knowledge you get out of each round. "What, people really search for that?" is a common response.[2]

[1] http://www.querythegame.com

[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IUVSCSS

Is Google cool with people using their name and logo like this?

...and cool site. One of those things where you wonder why no one's thought of it before.

googlefeud.com will probably have to change its name to something else

same thing happened to endlessyoutube.com. Now it redirects you to endlessvideo.com

Huh. I made something very similar to this: http://feud.mattgmade.me

summarizing other comments here: broken! but fun! and will be taken down and/or renamed!

This is a great concept, it doesn't work. After I got a few I knew were right, I cheated and it's not working. Maybe it works in some other version of google than mine.

Fun game, it tells a lot about how the masses would think about something (they most often it feels like the people who search google most are mostly 10 yr old).

Fun idea, but i think the Culture tab is pretty specic to american culture. (i live in India, and was logged into my account)

I can't wait to revisit this in 2 days.

Yep, it's broken.

I think I broke it.

this game is bullsh[can you guess the ending of this phrase?].

Broken, but I'm sure it'll get acquired for 2.5 billion!

Google Corp Dev here. Would love to chat.

Busted!

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