Vembu Blog » conspiracy theory http://blog.vembu.com Backup & Beyond Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:48:35 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 TechCrunch’s Subliminal Messaging (Conspiracy?) http://blog.vembu.com/techcrunch-conspiracy-theory/ http://blog.vembu.com/techcrunch-conspiracy-theory/#comments Sat, 10 Oct 2009 11:46:11 +0000 lux http://blogs.vembu.com/?p=534 Subliminal advertising has always been the more talked about part of subliminal messaging. How about subliminal messaging through search results?

Go to TechCrunch’s search box, and search for anything – the longer your phrase, the better (you’ll have fewer results to wade through).

Scroll through the results – what do you find? All results from www.TechCrunch.com are correctly dated. All results from external sites are dated Dec 31, 1969. The subliminal messaging: any TechCrunch result is current. Everyone else is ‘living in the past’. How’s that for a conspiracy theory a la Web2.0?

TechCrunch Results

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]]> Subliminal advertising has always been the more talked about part of subliminal messaging. How about subliminal messaging through search results?

Go to TechCrunch’s search box, and search for anything – the longer your phrase, the better (you’ll have fewer results to wade through).

Scroll through the results – what do you find? All results from www.TechCrunch.com are correctly dated. All results from external sites are dated Dec 31, 1969. The subliminal messaging: any TechCrunch result is current. Everyone else is ‘living in the past’. How’s that for a conspiracy theory a la Web2.0?

TechCrunch Results

Of course, it’s probably just a harmless bug in their Content Management System but the conspiracy theory on subliminal messaging is obviously more fun! Someone please tell TechCrunch.

As you can see, it’s a a lazy Saturday here. Strangely enough, TechCrunch’s mention of conspiracy theories set this post in motion.

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