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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: preacher on 19 September 2002, 13:08

Title: Google
Post by: preacher on 19 September 2002, 13:08: Go to google.com type in "go to hell" including the quote marks. Then push the I'm Feelin Lucky button.
Title: Google
Post by: Pantso on 19 September 2002, 13:28: Lololol :D :D ! Shit! I can't stop laughing man :D !!! Straight to the M$ site! Ahahahahahaha!!!!! Long live Google!!!!!
Title: Google
Post by: trc3 on 19 September 2002, 15:03: Google knows whats up; that shits comedy.
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 19 September 2002, 16:56: i got this site: http://www.expage.com/page/HellHell (http://www.expage.com/page/HellHell)
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 19 September 2002, 16:57: oh... wait i spelt it wrong.
when i type it properly i got:

quote:

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

While trying to retrieve the URL: http://www.microsoft.com/ (http://www.microsoft.com/)

The following error was encountered:

* Access Denied.

Access control configuration prevents your request from being allowed at this time. Please contact your service provider if you feel this is incorrect.

Your cache administrator is root.
Generated Thu, 19 Sep 2002 00:23:53 GMT by gonarch (Squid/2.4.STABLE6)

my proxy doesnt allow me to go to microsoft
Title: Google
Post by: RudeCat7 on 19 September 2002, 19:18: I tried it on Yahoo, and AOL.com was #5 :D
Title: Google
Post by: voidmain on 19 September 2002, 20:06: What's odd is I found the article on The Register yesterday about that. But yesterday (and still today) when I go to google and type in "go to hell" the first thing on the list is "HELL.COM". I see nothing M$ related anywhere.

I thought maybe google checked my browser string to see what browser I was using and refined my search based on that as I use konqueror and I do not identify as IE. I also do not allow cookies from google. But then I changed my browser string to IE and still didn't get it. Then I tried in Mozilla and I still don't get it.

I also have M$ blocked at my proxy but that shouldn't cause it not to come up in a google search... still confused on this one...
Title: Google
Post by: pkd_lives on 19 September 2002, 21:16: Did you put in go to hell? you should put in "go to hell". I found Hell.com without the quotes.

Note the double quotes.

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
Title: Google
Post by: KernelPanic on 19 September 2002, 21:19: I found the same as void main. In windows and linux it went to hell.com. Ia lso tried google.co.uk and google.ca
Title: Google
Post by: xyle_one on 19 September 2002, 22:48: thats fu@king great. it takes you straight to hell!! kinda makes me want to make a parody religious site about "searching down the wrong path leads us from the path of rightousness to the 'gates' of hell, blah blah blah."
ecsyle_one
Title: Google
Post by: voidmain on 19 September 2002, 22:58: Ahh! I missed the part about the quotes (") being required. It works when I add the quotes. Another interesting one I just tried is "the gates of hell" (without the quote marks). About the 7th link down brings you here:

http://egomania.nu/gates.html (http://egomania.nu/gates.html)

(http://smile.gif)
Title: Google
Post by: KernelPanic on 19 September 2002, 23:10: /me hits head against wall.
Title: Google
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 20 September 2002, 00:05: That "adds up to 666" thing is hilarious. So is the go to hell thing... :D :D :D
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 20 September 2002, 00:29: quote:
Originally posted by void main:
Ahh! I missed the part about the quotes (") being required. It works when I add the quotes. Another interesting one I just tried is "the gates of hell" (without the quote marks). About the 7th link down brings you here:

http://egomania.nu/gates.html (http://egomania.nu/gates.html)

(http://smile.gif)

at the bottom where is says 'another trick for windows' i couldnt get it to do anything other than give me alternate words. (i didnt actually touch a machine with windows on it though)
Title: Google
Post by: Calum on 20 September 2002, 00:52: why does it go to microsoft.com? :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

quote:
1) Go into word for windows.

2) Type 'Unable to get a date' and highlight this text.

3) Go to 'Tools, Language, Set Language' and change to 'English (United States)'.

4) Make sure your text is still highlighted.

5) Go to 'Tools, Language, Thesaurus'.

see what happens?
nothing! what was supposed to happen???

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: Calum ]
Title: Google
Post by: pkd_lives on 20 September 2002, 01:14: When you call up the Thesaurus the bottom option is 'unable to get an erection'.

Mindshateringly funny, the comic mastery of this little joke leads one to believe that this comedian will one day write a book that will make Juvenille look like a gross amateur with nothing to say.

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

And the 666 thing has been on here before 1 in denary is not equivalent to 1 in ASCII (so it's bollocks).

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]

[ September 19, 2002: Message edited by: pkd ]
Title: Google
Post by: trc3 on 22 September 2002, 06:40: Another one, go to google and type "the best company" with the quotation marks then press the im feeling lucky button. :D
Title: Google
Post by: psyjax on 22 September 2002, 07:41: quote:
Originally posted by trc3:
Another one, go to google and type "the best company" with the quotation marks then press the im feeling lucky button. :D

Yes, google knows very, VERY, well what's up :D

God bless them!
Title: Google
Post by: xyle_one on 22 September 2002, 07:46: "the best company" = apple.com (http://smile.gif)
"go to hell" = microsoft.com :(
so, what do you type in to get linux??? i put "real os" and it brought up a bunch of linux and mac sites (mostly linux). i don't think that it fits the theme though.
Ecsyle_One
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 22 September 2002, 07:46: AOL is the third one down when you search "go to hell"
Title: Google
Post by: trc3 on 22 September 2002, 08:01: quote:
Originally posted by xyle_one:
so, what do you type in to get linux??? i put "real os" and it brought up a bunch of linux and mac sites (mostly linux). i don't think that it fits the theme though.
Ecsyle_One

I put "the best os" and linux.org was #1

[ September 21, 2002: Message edited by: trc3 ]
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 22 September 2002, 23:40: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27179.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27179.html)

quote:

Microsoft tops Google hell search rankings
By John Lettice
Posted: 18/09/2002 at 17:30 GMT

Weirdisms in Google's ranking system are sent to entertain us occasionally, and as we've had this one from a couple of people today, we suspect it's new. But don't blame us if it's not, we lead sheltered lives sometimes.

Currently, if you type "go to hell" into Google, then Microsoft Corporation, Where do you want to go today? comes first. This is particularly outstanding given that the number two slot is occupied by hell.com itself, which seems to be a very weird site we do not understand (told you we lead sheltered lives).

Honourable mention in third place for AOL Anywhere, which does indeed seem to us a possible definition of hell. Then they get kind of normal.

Wandering round the topic we tripped over The official Microflaccid page, which reports a couple of similar incidents. And then there's The Register, which covered a couple here and here.

the register reported it too.
Title: Google
Post by: Calum on 23 September 2002, 01:10: apparently it was on slashdot first.

also, weirdisms? it's a deliberate easter egg fergodssake!
Title: Google
Post by: Calum on 23 September 2002, 22:16: hey! i found another uncanny weirdism in google!!!!

go to google.com and type in the word "Calum" and the word "Music", and then hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky'...
Title: Google
Post by: Master of Reality on 24 September 2002, 00:08: go to www.googl.ca (http://www.googl.ca)