[article] The search engine I've been waiting for!

mike65

This from www.bbc.co.uk

Google unhappy with rude copycat

Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, has issued a legal warning to a rude copycat website - pornography-based Booble.

Bosses at Google are demanding that Booble, which allows users to search for adult products, changes its name and identity.

The Booble webpage, which was launched last week, currently looks very similar to that of Google's.

Booble insists it is merely a harmless parody.

Google, which according to press reports has delayed plans to float next week on the New York Stock Exchange, has issued a writ against Booble.

The legal document calls on the pornography site to "permanently refrain" from using Google's name or any variation on it "that is likely to cause confusion or dilution".

Joking aside

US-based Booble replied by asserting its right to parody under the first amendment.

"The entire universe gets the joke. Only a lawyer could say 'Booble' without smiling," it said.

Or apparently a senior Google executive. The search engine is refusing to accept that Booble is harmless mimicry.

"For a work to constitute a parody, it must use some elements of a prior author's composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on the original author's works," Google said in a formal reply to the pornography site.

Booble, which launched on 20 January, said it has proved so popular that the site has collapsed twice because of overuse.

Google has more than 70% of the global search engine market.

*Me scurries off to check www.booble.com*

Mike.

Agent Smith

for a search engine its really bad anyway....

TheSonOfBattles

You gotta love the booble signature at least. This may be the funniest thing i've seen all week tbh. Don't know why it wasn't in the humour forum.

mike65

I agree! Was'nt thinking, and yep its a lame site. The reaction of google was more amusing.

Mike.

raphaelS

Good sens of humour...

http://search.booble.com/google.html

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Your search - sense of humor - did not match any Google documents
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Suggestions:
go to Booble.com. It's FUNNY.
Get Booble swag. It's FUNNY, and makes a great gift!
Search for "porn" on Google...now that's a joke.

Raphael

Cabaal

gota laugh at the logo


there used to be a similiar site about a year called www.sexoogle.com, maybe google took it down to?

hehe this is great advertising for the site and I imagine the site is going to crash again now due to overuse

Hobbes

google is still better.

User45701

It is quite funny also if you move your mouse over the "leave now" it is a link to the google website