Google Blackout?
Someone recently pointed me to the rather ominous sounding Google Blackout. The site has a black background and huge white numbers that count down. Some quick math reveals that the number is what appears to be the number of seconds until January 1st, 2008.
What’s also curious is that if you turn off JavaScript and refresh the page, the countdown is replaced with “37* 25′ 38″, -122* 5′ 57″, which would appear to be GPS coordinates. Coordinates for what, you ask? You guessed it: Google Headquarters.
A WHOIS comes up empty. It’s private registered through Dreamhost.
I did notice that the default RSS feed for the page seems to be pointing at http://feeds.technorati.com/search/Google, but I doubt highly that Technorati has anything to do with it.
So…what is this? A cheap P.R. stunt? Some crazy-ass A.R.G? Terrorism? Who knows? I’ll update if I figure anything else out.
Tags: arg, google, google blackout
Updates | Jaybill McCarthy | 
October 4, 2007 1:21 pm
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By aPathetic, October 4, 2007 @ 10:26 pm
I believe this is what is referred to as “info-terrorism”. In other words, providing information to you that, in turn, FREAKS YOU THE F#$K OUT. I think.