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Post number 15434

kfury — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:12:59 -0800

Ginger... iMac... Yahoo? It looks like Yahoo! is taking a page from Steve Jobs's book, promising something that's 'so big there's never been anything like it on the Internet, or anywhere else.' Liftoff is 1 PM Pacific Time on Wednesday which, incidentally, is just after trading closes at NASDAQ.

By: Hugh2d2

Hugh2d2 — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:17:38 -0800

The background makes me think of Austin Powers... maybe this is just to generate buzz to announce a name for the third movie?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:21:51 -0800

I am going to make a comment in this thread that will blow away every other comment that has ever been made on MetaFilter, or anywhere else for that matter, in the history of the world. What will I say? Well, wait and see!

By: riffola

riffola — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:23:55 -0800

Upon previewing I see Hildago used my idea... damn. I've got nothing else to add for now.

By: eyeballkid

eyeballkid — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:27:19 -0800

Maybe it'll be something I can use with my mLife!!!!

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:29:33 -0800

Whatever it is, you can bet it won't be free. Unless it is just a stupid movie promo.

By: momus

momus — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:31:10 -0800

bad news, it's just a sale. in fact, they're calling it "the biggest internet sale ever." we should all try and contain ourselves.

By: panopticon

panopticon — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:32:43 -0800

I don't know if anything could be better than that amazon camera sale from a while back.

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:35:35 -0800

Well, whatever it is...I bet that cities will be designed around it.

By: plaino

plaino — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:44:19 -0800

GABBO! Then follows a brief but arresting advertisement for `Gabbo'', whoever that is. The advertising blitz continues, and the day finally arrives at which Gabbo's identity will be revealed. To great fanfare, we discover that Gabbo is a ventriloquist's dummy

By: kokogiak

kokogiak — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:51:23 -0800

I thought you meant gabocorp. Scared me there plaino.

By: SpecialK

SpecialK — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:02:41 -0800

*yawn*

By: Shadowkeeper

Shadowkeeper — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:10:00 -0800

I heard they are unveiling a new color for use on the Internet: #FFFFFG.

By: harrycaul

harrycaul — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:21:15 -0800

If its so big, how come it isn't even linked from their frontpage? How'd you stumble upon that page anyway?

By: owillis

owillis — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:30:00 -0800

YahooPorn: Never A Problem With Profits Ever Again

By: dack

dack — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:34:29 -0800

"Gabbo. He'll tell us what to do." If this is even half as big as Ginger and iMac, it's going to change the world in ways we can't even imagine.

By: ncurley

ncurley — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 15:58:47 -0800

It's nothing special. Really. All Yahoo! is going to introduce is what they promise to be the "Biggest Sale in Internet History." Their ad in the April 2002 YIL explains it all:

Nobody will ever know you are shopping. Quietly head over to the "Biggest Sale in Internet History." Never before has so much been on sale in one time at one place. Ever. Seriously. Check it out March 13-15. http://bigsale.yahoo.com

By: machaus

machaus — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:01:02 -0800

If it's such a big friggin' deal, couldn't they spend about ten minutes to code a more elegant countdown?

By: russh

russh — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:08:57 -0800

You can bet it won't work on a Mac... if recent Yahoo history is any indication. sigh.

By: krisjohn

krisjohn — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:35:25 -0800

If this is even half as big as Ginger and iMac, it's going to change the world in ways we can't even imagine.

Even if it's twice as big as Ginger and iMac it's going to change the world in ways we can barely discern (if at all). I'm sorry, but shit like this trips my hype-o-meter. Vague or excessive advertising is, without fail, the mark of a product that is at best unremarkable and at worst a con.

By: badstone

badstone — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 16:36:12 -0800

"Biggest Sale in Internet History" so, what, they're selling the office furniture and laptops of all the people they just fired?

By: Danelope

Danelope — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:29:45 -0800

Maybe they're selling the Internet itself...

By: Settle

Settle — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:57:44 -0800

Maybe they got congress to legalize child pornography.

By: insomnyuk

insomnyuk — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:40:50 -0800

Maybe they're selling the Internet itself... Does this mean I'll finally get 'Internet' on my computer? I thought AOL already did that.

By: benjh

benjh — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:01:21 -0800

You know what I'd like them to have in their sale? An ad-Free yahoo. That includes banner ads, interstitials in the groups service, skyscrapers, pop-ups... I will give you money, just turn the damn things off.

By: spilon

spilon — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 19:48:55 -0800

Maybe they're going to add some new sites to their index in a reasonable amount of time? Maybe they're going to find the other 90% of their stock price?

By: aaron

aaron — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:28:10 -0800

You can bet it won't work on a Mac... if recent Yahoo history is any indication. sigh. That's fine, I won't be buying from them or any of their shops anyway, precisely because of the Mac issue. I understand that as a Mac owner, I shouldn't expect to have access to 100% of the features Yahoo offers Windows users. But their near-total unwillingness to develop ANY of their Windows products for the Mac is just too damn much. I mean, when Yahoo Messenger is at version 5.0 for Windows and version 1.1 for the Mac, something is very very wrong. I'll use their email, I'll very occasionally use their main directory (Google is usually just better), as both are free and work more or less the same on all platforms. But anything off which they might make actual money? Forget it. They can have my banner ad hits, and that's it.

By: surfmoc

surfmoc — Mon, 11 Mar 2002 21:34:40 -0800

hell yeah... they are selling everything... even a date with Jerry Yang

By: machaus

machaus — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 04:58:08 -0800

ha! a guy from Yahoo! emailed me that they fixed the counter to look better. I'm going to bitch about things here more often.

By: rodii

rodii — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:09:49 -0800

I'm sorry, but shit like this trips my hype-o-meter. Now if we can just get your sarcasm-o-meter working you'll be able to keep up.

By: Outlawyr

Outlawyr — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 05:40:37 -0800

Whatever it is, I'm just glad I was in on the ground floor.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:45:55 -0800

By: adampsyche

adampsyche — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 07:48:43 -0800

Great post, kliuless. Don't forget entertainment pr0n, top stories pr0n, sports pr0n, etc.

By: kliuless

kliuless — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 08:08:42 -0800

finance pr0n, weather pr0n...

By: trioperative

trioperative — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:18:51 -0800

The truth is, by biggest thing on the internet, they mean to say that they locked Rosie O'Donnell in a room for a month and fed her nothing but lard.

By: insomnyuk

insomnyuk — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 23:55:00 -0800

5 minutes until zero hour, and we know the truth :)

By: insomnyuk

insomnyuk — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 00:05:12 -0800

I'm so disappointed that this was completely predictable...

By: ColdChef

ColdChef — Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:59:24 -0800

WOW! Now I can BUY stuff on the internet! My world will never be the same...