14 DAY TRIAL // Google tries to provide more and more services from all categories to help their clients improve the performance of their internet activities. The company also designed several tools to allow users to earn money, AdWords and AdSense representing two of the most popular advertising platforms in the entire internet world. Google is the developer of the SOAP API for PHP, an interesting tool that provides the development of PHP projects that can be included into website's content to improve their functionality. One of the developers that used this tool is Geoff Peters who designed an interesting idea meant to measure jokes popularity.
Google Laugh is based on a simple idea: when you type a joke into the box provided by the developer and hit search, Google will analyze the popularity of certain keywords using the search engine's technology.
"Geoff Peters created a website called "Make Google Laugh."* The premise? You enter a joke (or anything else) into the text box, hit submit, and then let the tool tell you how funny that was using the Google SOAP API. I copied a joke from the joke generator and achieved an incredible score of 67.28% with it. Geoff allowed me to republish the "top secret" inner workings of Google Laugh Rank, or what you may want to call it: "It chooses a few words from the entered text and does some various searches for popularity and GoogleShare ratios for certain humor keywords," said Philipp Lenssen, the blogger that found this service.
After I tested the service for the first time, I must say that the website's loading time is very high so it takes a lot of time until Google Laugh shows how the funny percentage of your joke. I also tried to write some short jokes but it seems like the service gives a higher rank for larger jokes because it analyzes more certain words.
