Do you love Google? Google sure hopes you do. Although it hasn’t been announced anywhere, go to www.wdyl.com or google.com/whatdoyoulove, type in a search string, and it creates a sort of mini-portal where it runs the search through every Google product. So, instead of individually having to look up a Google Map, YouTube, Trend, and photo album for, oh, let’s say dinosaurs, What Do You Love? does it for you all at once. It actually has the potential to be fairly useful, if only for reminding you of services Google has beyond just being a search engine.
The odd part about this – Google releases this now, a search engine that only searches through Google products, immediately after Google announces they’ve come under investigation for anti-competitive practices by the Justice Department? To paraphrase Bo Diddley’s “Who Do You Love”, which happens to be the second result that pops up on YouTube when you type in “what do you love” into What Do You Love?, maybe Google really does walk 47 miles of barb wire and use a cobra snake for a necktie. Somehow, this new Google venture seems belligerently ballsy. Or would be, if they had bothered to announce the service instead of quietly releasing it. Even funnier, you would assume that a product like this would be key for social media integration, but the only share options are to Gmail and Buzz. And who uses Buzz?
But because everyone should listen to Diddley’s “Who Do You Love” (with accompaniment by guitarist legend Ron Wood), watch the video.
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