Gooogie is fun with Google and humour for laughing.

January 8, 2007 7:58 AM

Did you mean foo? (for any value of mean and foo)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane (20 comments total)

Did you mean Gooogle?
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 8:14 AM on January 8, 2007

Googie?
posted by Afroblanco at 8:14 AM on January 8, 2007

Apparently not.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 8:15 AM on January 8, 2007

Am I supposed to say "Meh" here, hm?
Just to keep the tags accurate, y'know!
posted by Chunder at 8:36 AM on January 8, 2007

"Gooogie is a site that has no connection to Google.

It is meant as a bit of fun by allowing people to create a "GooogIe cannot find..." type of page that looks similar to Google."

Yup - a worthwhile pursuit. As if there wasn't enough confusion for all the poor netnewbs with spoofed sites and the like, now we have to spoof their searches.

I definitely say Meh.

But yeah, "bushwhacking self-godwinizing pinko commie blogyuppies" == "Metafilter" is kinda funny. Ish.
posted by Chunder at 8:39 AM on January 8, 2007

Hoyo!
posted by cortex at 9:30 AM on January 8, 2007

This is the g00f135t thread I've seen here in weeks. Get back to work!
posted by davy at 9:59 AM on January 8, 2007

meh.
posted by Citizen Premier at 10:27 AM on January 8, 2007

Oh come on. Can none of you see the humor in this? I'm sure all of us know at least one friend who deserves a spoofed search result.
posted by caution live frogs at 11:55 AM on January 8, 2007

humor for laughing?
posted by OmieWise at 11:58 AM on January 8, 2007

Shit, I messed it up. Did I mean humor for laughing?

Y'know how you can get a real feeling of embarrassment from something that you shouldn't really care about? No? Oh.
posted by OmieWise at 12:00 PM on January 8, 2007

With the help of an IT peon, I once redirected 1/3 of the office workstations' google searches to a page that displayed one of three "your search cannot be completed" google-esque pages that gave various reasons; the most successful suggested that the block of IP addresses in question was under investigation in a criminal investigation. This worked best, as some targets went to neighbors to try searching on their machine, and were successful -- suggesting it was the IP address of the target only that was under investigation.

Good times, good times. One person didn't have the nerve to say anything to anyone, and only (finally!) timidly asked the IT person to look into it two months later -- and had just skipped googling for the duration.
posted by davejay at 12:58 PM on January 8, 2007 [2 favorites]

er, suggested that the block of IP addresses OF THE SEARCHER was under investigation -- doesn't make sense without that bit
posted by davejay at 12:59 PM on January 8, 2007

This is kinda cute. It won't last once the trademark lawyers have a fit, but...
posted by Zinger at 1:02 PM on January 8, 2007

I meant to wong foo.
posted by papakwanz at 3:39 PM on January 8, 2007

Freudian slip
posted by mr_crash_davis at 5:06 PM on January 8, 2007 [1 favorite]

I'd just like to point out that mean is a verb, not a relative pronoun.
posted by mosessmith at 5:49 PM on January 8, 2007

I'd jus tlike to point out that SHUT UP AND MAKE WITH THE FUNNY.
posted by cortex at 6:03 PM on January 8, 2007

Fun.
posted by nickyskye at 6:11 PM on January 8, 2007

I liked Dooogle better.
posted by Remy at 9:29 PM on January 8, 2007