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  • Google SearchWiki Now Has Sound. Sigh.

    Michael Arrington

    J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

    Thursday, December 18th, 2008

    Thank goodness Google’s working on the really important stuff, like adding sound effects to SearchWiki, instead of releasing the promised off button to that dreaded service.

    Although, I have to admit it’s pretty cool. To add the sound effect, turn this Google experiment on and delete a search result in Google search (you have to have SearchWiki turned on). It makes a Desktop Tower Defense like sound, recorded by co-founder Sergey Brin himself. Check it out in the video below.

    Of course I’m now deleting search results like crazy to make the sound, which has wrecked my search results. I guess today’s a writeoff for SearchWiki data collection procedure.

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