# Where is the \*original\* Google Talk. **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [October 18, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572 "2008-10-18T22:10:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2008, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/1 "2008-10-18T22:10:13Z")
“Google Talk” now refers to google’s IM service. But there used to be a neat little program built by someone at google which would ‘talk’. All you had to do was enter three words and it would use search results to add words and create nonsense rambling sentences out of it. Does that still exist? ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/2 "2008-10-19T02:55:51Z")
I used to like playing with this, too. Your post inspired me to find it again. [Here ya go.](http://douweosinga.com/projects/googlechatbot) _ **lobsang is** an expert in semiconductor physics britney lectures on the semiconductor lasers under cw as well as coherent light source._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/3 "2008-10-19T04:19:14Z")
elvis can be found everywhere on earth and in the cosmos prices I knew it all along! ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/4 "2008-10-19T08:54:35Z")
> [@Roland\_Orzabal](#): > > … > _ **lobsang is** an expert in semiconductor physics britney lectures on the semiconductor lasers under cw as well as coherent light source._ 😃 Apparently light source is the only thing I’m coherent at. Thanks Roland! I’m going to have fun with this later at work 🙂 It doesn’t seem to ramble like it used to… “the straight dope is a popular question and since i am dead i hope to be in second place because its got the sun in the church cathedrals as solar observatories jl” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/5 "2008-10-19T16:57:00Z")
This was promising until ‘ladypoetess’ ( :dubious: ) derailed it. “this was in poor taste i think it is time to panic why news organizations have to do it ladypoetess” ---
**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/6 "2008-10-19T18:03:41Z")
“John McCain is proud of g gordon liddy” ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/7 "2008-10-19T18:07:36Z")
> [@ASAKMOTSD](#): > > “John McCain is proud of g gordon liddy” _“ **barack obama** and joe biden believe both of these extremes the middle way is here so feel free to skip this post i just moved into an apartment and tried to get this to workaargh.”_ I am thinking a game could be made of this… _“ **asakmotsd** is offline member”_ ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/8 "2008-10-19T19:31:45Z")
Heehee, here’s what I get using my first name. Search phrase “Henry is”: Henry is an investigative mythologist and author of ten books that i personally own this article is not drivel Also, apparently it will return the same result for the same search. Neat. ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/9 "2008-10-19T20:18:52Z")
Things you may not have known about gorillas: gorilla inhabits the albertine rift montane forests ecoregion is a part of the story thoughts and patterns of behavior in focused encounters cambridge uk cambridge university I think I missed the news story where there were focused gorilla encounters in “cambridge uk cambridge university”. I wonder how dangerous “focused gorilla encounters” are. Here are the other posters in this thread (that haven’t been searched yet): mobo85 the voiceovers roland orzabal background h3knuckles wallflower jragon total (what’s with all the one/two word answers? :() This is what I got searching “Jeff” \*my first name): jeff buckley and his touring ensemble went back to australia last night then i got up and walked away while i was at techcrunch ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2008, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/10 "2008-10-19T21:16:56Z")
[QUOTE=Jragon] (what’s with all the one/two word answers? :() [/QUOTE] I don’t know; it used to go on and on for as long as you’d let it. Most of the time, though, it’d eventually devolve into an endless string of “is is is is is is is”, so maybe this new behavior is the result of an attempt to fix that. I agree that it sucks. I want my old 2,000-word nonsensical essay generator back. ---
**Author:** ![Fetchund](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b2d939/32.png) [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/11 "2008-10-20T00:24:11Z")
gavia is a fully modular eulerian model several different chemical mechanisms are implemented in the pfc although via different receptor subtypes although it was recently proposed for deletion before nominate it for wikipediaarticles Who says it doesn’t ramble? My dog will be so impressed by her new status… My other dog is a wet hippy… corbi is a commune in the province of the indian ocean ---
**Author:** ![H3Knuckles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@H3Knuckles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H3Knuckles)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/12 "2008-10-20T01:14:49Z")
> [@Fetchund](#): > > My other dog is a wet hippy… > > corbi is a commune in the province of the indian ocean So’s my cat, Chessy! :eek: Seriously, “Chessy is” got the identical result. My other cat got: “Fe is attracting insurgents middot” 😕 I think my favorite results are the one like my name search and **Jragon** ’s, where it starts out making sense and then suddenly veers off on a non sequitur like a senile old man. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/13 "2008-10-20T15:24:19Z")
[QUOTE=J This is what I got searching “Jeff” \*my first name): **jeff buckley** and his touring ensemble went back to australia last night then i got up and walked away while i was at techcrunch[/QUOTE] Your name is familiar… Are you that “What the Buck” guy on youtube? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/14 "2008-10-20T15:42:20Z")
> [@H3Knuckles](#): > > I think my favorite results are the one like my name search and **Jragon** ’s, where it starts out making sense and then suddenly veers off on a non sequitur like a senile old man. Here ya go: the george w bush presidency is the worst in the nations history girls entered puberty and left school at the age of No idea why it trails off like that. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/15 "2008-10-20T15:50:05Z")
In interest of equal time: the bill clinton presidency economic impact on african americans by elgie mcfayden ---
**Author:** ![Jragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19b73/32.png) [@Jragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jragon)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/16 "2008-10-20T19:03:46Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Your name is familiar… Are you that “What the Buck” guy on youtube? :eek: Actually, I only entered my first name, it filled in “buckley” on its own. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2008, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/17 "2008-10-20T19:22:30Z")
That explains it rather well 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/18 "2008-10-21T00:53:45Z")
Besides, isn’t the What the Buck guy’s name Michael? ---
**Author:** ![phi2dao](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/6de8d8/32.png) [@phi2dao](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phi2dao)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/19 "2008-10-21T02:31:19Z")
I got a rather amusing one for my last name: **Levi** strauss was both a merchant and a militia captain both of whom have their faces painted light yellow and sprinkled with mica and german glass glitter for only ---
**Author:** ![ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ComeToTheDarkSideWeHaveCookies)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572/20 "2008-10-21T02:57:42Z")
come to the dark side we have cookies tshirt design is printed on a hemispherical surface and is fed to the wolves a blogger at training camp the mma workout you [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-the-original-google-talk/468572.md?page=2)