Comments on: Unexplained Phenomenon: All your base are belong to us

By: Crop Circles logo appears on Google homepage

Crop Circles logo appears on Google homepage — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:59:14 +0000

[...] with a missing “l”. Last time Google’s logo linked to results for “unexplained phenomenon” and their logo and URL both had an “O” missing. A post in the Google Korea Blog [...]

By: mushy brain

mushy brain — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:42:08 +0000

let me spin another angle on this. gamers know (I wish I didn’t stop playing games) another set of meme these are: fail, win, owned, and pwnt.

what if the phrase used by google recently (meme itself) had another meme in it? OWNED. all your O are belong to us = all your o are owned by us. according to the definition of this meme, OWNED means FAIL if someone does it to you, i.e. you’re screwed. now what is O? there can be many meanings, but going back to basics O means a round hole :)

so the phrase now reads, we screwed you in all your holes = we screwed you big time = you’re so screwed = we screwed you hard = … well you get the idea :) but, google is not evil right? can this be a new google-moto? let’s see, they used folksonomy, crowdware and other forms of social collaboration on the net as a free labour and then sold it for big profits.

you are owned :)

By: Zero Wing

Zero Wing — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 16:44:34 +0000

DNA? LOL. “The game” is Zero Wing. It’s famous for its poor English translations.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:55:12 +0000

It’s the game’s 20th anniversary. Some guys at Google wanted to celebrate with a (slightly) cryptic message.

Phenomenon explained.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:35:34 +0000

Are you retarded? Seriously?

They were poking fun at a meme with a UFO abducting an ‘o’ from their name. The go_gle is google with an ‘o’ missing. There is no significance to ‘go’ or ‘gle’.

By: Big O

Big O — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:59:54 +0000

You guys have too much time on your hands…

By: dan

dan — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:51:36 +0000

lame

By: Sir

Sir — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 14:54:58 +0000

The day before the number one search was Unexplained Phenomenon.

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:25:46 +0000

->a group of people awkwardly waiting for something to happen; usually unfamiliar with each other; a pre-icebreaker group

By: Mr. Nice Guy

Mr. Nice Guy — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:05:52 +0000

This is an easy one. Didn’t one of the founders leave recently to back a DNA testing company. Maybe it’s refering to all the 00000000000 he’s not going to be making with google from now on.