Toilet Search Engine Diaroogle for When You Gotta Go On The Street

While touring Germany this summer, I met Bill and Dixie from Melbourne, Australia. (I learned the Aussies use real estate agents to list & sell their homes (for a 2.5% commission, with the seller paying the advertising)– they don’t use buyer’s brokers.)

Bill and Dixie came to town this weekend and I gave them a full day tour of Manhattan. As with any all day thingee, nature will call. Now, what to do when you’re on the streets of New York. Well, I dialed up Diaroogle.com, a public toilet search engine. No ~~shit~~ kidding.

Simply enter an address, cross street, zip, neighborhood, park, or landmark and Diaroogle searches for a public toilet and pins them on a Google map, with a description and information. The community of users even rates the toilets for cleanliness, privacy and accessibility. Now, that’s Web 2.0 to go.

We were in Rockefeller Center and got this:

According to the website:

It’s for the discerning, on-the-go defecator who is brave enough to use a public bathroom, but still demands a hygienic and private bathroom experience. It is also a community authored database of Manhattan toilets.

And I used to look for the Golden Arches.

Unfortunately, Diaroogle only covers NYC. If you have to go somewhere else, try Mizpee.

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