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Presentation

Co-conspirators Joël Franusic and Adam Smith present the original idea behind Slut-o-Meter to a number of other geeks at SuperHappyDevHouse 5:

How It Works

Slut-o-meter evaluates the promiscuity of the subject you enter by comparing the number of Google search results with and without "safe-search" enabled. A complete slut would return unsafe results and no safe results. Alternatively, a clean name should produce the same number of safe and unsafe results. The "promiscuity" percentage we give you is calculated as follows:

Popularity

Simply put, this is the number of times this slut has been searched for.

Negative Promiscuity? Huh?

If you're wondering why some subjects have a negative promiscuity, well, you're not alone. In general, this happens when the number of safe results is greater than the number of unsafe results (or if there are no unsafe results whatsoever). We're not quite sure why this is the case, but we believe that Google is not telling us the truth.

The Story

One day in Africa (no kidding), Joël and Adam came up with the idea of using Google to determine how sluttly an individual is. Over a year has passed with no action and the idea was almost forgotten. At SuperHappyDevHouse the idea was resurrected and was quickly brought to life in a matter of hours. The public demonstration of the first Slut-o-Meter showed a person's promiscuity rating with live integration into Firefox using a Greasemonkey script. At that time, the application was a faceless web service with a simple REST interface. Tamiko contributed her design skills and assembled the logo. Since then, Brian has taken over the Slut-o-Meter and turned it into a nifty web service with statistics galore. Enjoy!

Update: Slut-o-Meter Project Presentation Video from SHDH5

The Creators

• Adam Smith

  Adam is a first year Ph.D. student in computer science at UC Santa Cruz. He enjoys using the Internet for things for which it was not intended, present application included.

• Joël Franusic

  Joël Franusic works full-time at Cuesta College. He enjoys using esoteric technology to subvert established ideologies.

• Tamiko Rast

  Tamiko is a designer for the company she and her brother founded, Rasteroids Design. If not on her computer or the Internet, she's probably outside working on her car.

• Brian Johnson

  Brian is a full-time part-time student at San Jose State University. He works part-time full-time at Synaptics as a Desktop Support Administrator. Additionally, he enjoys the outdoors and long walks on the beach.

• Tom Harrison

  Tom is an IT consultant who provides not-for-profit hosting for friends and colleagues via CCCP. Tom contributes much needed inspiration, feedback, and ideas for development of the Slut-o-meter.

• Daniel Bohannon

  Finds a disturbing humor in team killing and making a mess of things his friends participate in. This current project included, as he "markets" slut-o-meter until the server finally fell to its knees.

• Matt Rossetta

  Matt is a freelance web developer. Occasionally he can be found dev-ing at the local Starbucks (not drinking coffee) leeching the Internet with a couple friends.

• Jeff Lindsay

  Jeff is a hacker and entrepreneur. He created and co-hosts the SuperHappyDevHouse event and is currently drunk.