Did You Know Google Can Now Translate VINs?

"McMike" (mcmike) 06/16/2015 at 09:17 • Filed to: None

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No?

Of course you didn’t, because it doesn’t.

I was !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! with Graverobber earlier about today’s NPOCP VIN I decoded. Not sure if the recommendations are because people got the joke, or if they are all rushing to Google Translate to give it a shot.

Ooops.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike 06/16/2015 at 09:21

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McMike

“Wasn’t my intention to troll the front page”

Shoop

Hermann > McMike 06/16/2015 at 09:24

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That’s a good one! Really well thought out.

Maybe Google will see spikes in people typing VINs in Translate and start considering it.

McMike > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht 06/16/2015 at 09:32

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It was a joke. I expeted giggles, not “Thanks for the info” replies.

I suppose if Google wasn’t up up in everyone’s data and rolling out new services every other week, it wouldn’t be half-way believeable in the first place.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > McMike 06/16/2015 at 09:38

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I was mostly refusing to draw a distinction between your jokes and trolling in general, not saying you meant to deceive per se. More of a “sure, you didn’t mean to troll the front page in that way. Trolling the FP in general? Definitely your MO.”

Carl (@stuffcarlsays) > McMike 06/16/2015 at 09:49

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Almost had me. Almost.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > McMike 06/16/2015 at 10:39

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Well played.

The Compromiser > McMike 06/16/2015 at 20:00

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Now want to know why it doesn’t.

Dammit Google! Fix that shit yo!