Have you played agoogleaday? It's Google's new interactive trivia game released this week. The question gives a few sentences that serve as clues. The player uses the first sentence's clues as Google Search keywords and explores the links to find the answers. Each answer helps figure out the next sentence's search words, until the player finds the answer to the entire trivia question. I think this is a fun way to learn random facts. The first one I tried was about Robert and Rohan and their musician father. In the end, I learned that Bob Marley had a ton of kids. The creators are smart because they include links to let people share the question on Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, and email and to follow the question on Facebook and Twitter. This allows them to stay in contact with the users who might forget to keep playing after their first try.
But, this game leaves me with questions about Google's motives. Are they trying to increase their site hits or is it a way for them to interact with users? Will they eventually give in to the pull of more profit and let the trivia question be sponsored (publicly or secretly) so that the answer ends up promoting a product, company, event, or person? I'm sure that over time Google's motives will become clear and only time will tell if this becomes a popular game or not.
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