http://www.metafilter.com/tags/fakewebsites Posts tagged with 'fakewebsites' at MetaFilter. Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:06:39 -0800 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:06:39 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/50579/April%2D2nd%2DFools Tired of the same old blogs with the same old links? Well, <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/">Mark Evanier</a> may have come up with the future of blogging with <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_11_28.html#010623">There's No Such Website!</a> It's a list of five weird websites with camouflaged links, and one is fake. Can you find the bogus site without having to visit all the real awful ones? Play <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_03.html#010645">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_10.html#010689">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_17.html#010709">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_21.html#010727">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_25.html#010744">here (holiday edition)</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2005_12_30.html#010763">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_01_15.html#010857">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_01_19.html#010874">here</a> and <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_02_08.html#010965">here</a> and (whew!) <a href="http://www.newsfromme.com/archives/2006_03_18.html#011180">here</a>. Don't you wish all blog links had a chance of being nonexistent? tag:metafilter.com,2006:site.50579 Sat, 01 Apr 2006 22:06:39 -0800 blog bogus boguswebsites fake fakewebsites humor markevanier nosuchwebsite weird weirdwebsites wendell http://www.metafilter.com/21181/ <a href="http://www.bagotronics.com/">What is Bagotronics?</a> "At Bagotronics we are IN business FOR business. Our scientists, engineers and designers work to develop the innovations that fuel the e-business engine that drives America's economy."<br><br> Entertained by an (unfortunately not reproduced on the website) full page ad in the SJ Mercury News, promising a time machine and including an apology to <a href="http://www.hgwellsusa.50megs.com/UK/index.html">old H.G.</a>, I wondered what was up. The ads, the website, all say to stay tuned until Thursday for details, but I'm not really that patient. But quick searches of MeFi, /., and Google turned up nothing, so I swerved over to my favorite lookup service and found that this is <a href="http://www.domainwatch.com/getwho.cgi?dom=bagotronics.com">simply an advertising comeon</a>, with the site owned by humongous advertising agency Ogilvy &amp; Mathers. tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21181 Tue, 29 Oct 2002 08:06:53 -0800 advertising fakewebsites IBM timemachine billsaysthis