To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: test From: bdv Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 12:58:20 -0500 second test of comments alias (first one failed) ===================================================================== From: Bryce B. To: Subject: heh... Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 14:36:56 -0800 Oh man, I fell for this prank hook. line and sinker. good! -b -- Bryce B. CS Email/Chat Admin ===================================================================== From: Jason S. To: Subject: hilarious Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 18:04:17 -0700 good work (referred from reg.) ===================================================================== From: Jordan To: Subject: Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 16:58:49 -0600 How come this site no longer works? ===================================================================== From: iffyatbestdotcom To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: 30K Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 03:04:00 +0000 We just passed the 30K mark as far as total pageviews... :-) Not bad for the first hour or so... I'm working on mirroring the site to my laptop at home so that when we hit the bandwidth quota we can fail back to here. Performance will drop quite a bit, though, as our dsl has pretty slow upstream speeds I think... not to mention A needs the LAN to get work done. But it'll be an option if worse comes to worse. ===================================================================== From: Louise T To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: bloody ace Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:15:53 -0000 and spookily accurate! ===================================================================== From: Shane B. To: Subject: Brilliant Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 05:03:18 -0500 You've captured inane net chatter perfectly! good versatility and nuances! and I liked the points made along the way. Hope others enjoy it as much as I did. : ) ===================================================================== From: Michael S. To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: Fabulous Spoof! Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 10:27:45 -0000 That's a keyboard you owe me. This one's full of coffee... Cheers Mike... ===================================================================== From: Brendon S. To: Subject: Tee-hee! Nice site Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:51:17 -0000 I love it! Shame Google don't have a sense of humour. That is a truly inspired piece of work. Thanks for leaving the add instructions up, too. Do you think you'll be able to find somewhere safe to host it? Brendon S. ===================================================================== From: Tolly N. To: Subject: Very Good Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 13:10:56 -0000 I was terribly impressed with this :) ===================================================================== From: Peter D. To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: Excellent!!!! Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 09:14:07 -0500 ===================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 11:09:05 -0600 To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: Sue M. Subject: Googol I learned of your site from the Register. Very good! ===================================================================== Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2002 12:39:03 -0500 (EST) From: boB R. To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: well done well done guys... beautiful prank! boB ===================================================================== From: TH Subject: Like one of the Rockefellers said ... To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com If you want to keep it private, don't use the telephone! ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:03:33 -0500 From: Steven C. Subject: Googol Search Broken To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:03:33 -0500 No matter what 2 users you enter it still comes up with the same results. ===================================================================== From: Joshua B. To: Subject: I love it! Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 03:32:53 -0500 You wouldn't happen to be releasing the source for this, would you? Josh ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:57:12 -0000 To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: Laura J. Subject: Amazing, man. Amazing. ===================================================================== From: Ben C. To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: nice stuff Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:23:09 -0000 well done ===================================================================== From: Peter F. To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: *hahahahaha...Thanks! Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:13:36 -0500 ===================================================================== From: Russell N. Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:26:05 -0500 (EST) To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Subject: very funny! http://aimsearch.hybernaut.com/aimsearch Very funny! I'll bet you made a lot of people's underwear turn brown with that one!! ===================================================================== From: Alex C. To: Subject: Your search does not work. Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:42:56 -0500 Everytime you search for names they come back saying the same things. This obviously is flawed. Alex ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:00:02 -0800 To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: Luke M. Subject: What a terrible idea Cc: abuse@google.com, google@google.com, bizdev@google.com I can't imagine why you thought anybody would be happy that you put private AIM conversations on the net. I don't have any embarrassing secrets in that AIM log - just vital company secrets, that you've now published to all our competitors. If I'm lucky, I won't get fired. In one smooth move, you've turned me from your biggest fan into your worst enemy. Google has been my HOME PAGE for the last year or so; now I'm going to remove it from all my bookmark lists, and do my damndest to discourage people from using it. I'm going to call people who advertise on your site and tell them I'm going to boycott their products because of your staggering disregard for privacy. Today is a GREAT day for all your competitors. You guys are bozos. Words can't express how disappointed I am. Perhaps a class-action lawsuit can? I'm going to start to look for one now. Edward M. ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 11:17:30 -0800 (PST) From: evan h. Subject: hilarious To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com ===================================================================== From: Michael K. To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 12:52:02 -0800 Regards, Michael K. ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 16:11:48 -0500 From: Andrew K. Subject: Hillarious! To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com "Anyone can fly, all you have to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss." -Douglas Adams, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy ===================================================================== From: Bill B. To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: AOL handles reused? Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:33:59 -0800 I did a search for conversations between myself and a friends and found 30 pages of conversation that never occured between us. I would suggest that whatever tagging/username/id function you are using is broken. ===================================================================== From: Eric M. To: Subject: DATA IS BAD on AOL IM db Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 14:59:55 -0800 I searched for some conversations. It found both user names, but the text was wrong. It was mixed up with other users conversations. Eric ===================================================================== From: John P. To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: aimsearch porned Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 20:38:38 -0500 hey brian: congrats on a great parody. i pointed to you in today's column and shortly after doing so began recieving e-mails pointing me to this: http://130.94.176.16/aimsearch?q1=q&q2=w&num=30&hl=en&lr=lang_en&start=125&s a=N which doesn't seem likely to be your handywork. best, John P. ===================================================================== From: RP To: Subject: Awesome joke Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:12:58 -0500 This is funny - I'm gonna really scare the sh*t out of a couple folks I know.....ROFL ===================================================================== To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: SR Subject: ha.ha.haah/ahhaoooghahhaha ROTFLMAO ===================================================================== From: Joe H. To: Subject: This is wrong Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 19:43:54 -0500 You should take this service off immediately. Who do you think you are! This is wrong, whether legal or not. I am pissed. -Joe ===================================================================== Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 22:31:50 -0800 From: Al T. Subject: It doesn't work To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com Folks, I have tried three different combinations where I know what the AIM conversations were. All of them returned the same sequence of comments and NONE of them ever existed in real life. I've been a big fan of Google since its inception, but this is just stupid. You clearly haven't done the first step in quality control, let alone a complete job. Shame! ===================================================================== Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 11:33:51 +1100 To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: Howard W. Subject: well, that's what I said ! ===================================================================== From: Andrew G. To: Subject: Incorrect results offensive! Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:34:13 -0500 I just tried your AIMsearch by entering two AIM userids: [deleted] and [deleted]. [deleted] is my userid. The result page returned showed a disgusting pornographic picture associated with a conversation that never happened! This is offensive-please correct your database at once! andy ===================================================================== From: Andrew K. To: Subject: That is the funniest prank I have ever seen on the Internet, ever! Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 22:31:13 -0500 Holy S___ this is the funniest, like, prank I have ever seen on the Internet! Ever! I am a contract computer worker at [Company Deleted] during the day. I read GMSV.com on my lunch break. They linked to your site on Friday, so I went and checked it out. I read your homepage, and I didn't realize it wasn't real! I was, like "Wow. That's amazing. I bet when people typed those AIM messages, they thought they were anonymous. That's pretty crazy. But I knew privacy on the Internet was kind of a myth." A buddy of mine has been on AOL for years. I had AOL when I first got my computer, although I dumped it years ago. I assumed AIM and AOL's buddy list were the same technology and I could remember his user ID, so I typed in his UID and my old one. I started to read the returned conversation. It started to talk about porn real quick. I didn't ever remember typing those things, but I was like "Whoa! I can't have these words showing up on my computer at work." So I left quickly. I just went back to investigate the site further, and it was only now that I saw the disclaimer "satire" on GMSV's site. Your site is so fricken funny! That is awesome. I totally fell for it. Andrew K. ===================================================================== Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 07:20:27 -0800 To: comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com From: Corrin Subject: aim search Greetings, I guess I'm having some trouble getting information out of the AIM database. No matter what user names I put in I always get the same conversation, just with different names in front of the dialogue. Any suggestions for correcting this or is it a problem on your end? Thanks Corrin ===================================================================== From: Steven E. To: Subject: useage Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2002 12:51:38 -0800 trying to do a aim search but not sure to put in real names or email addresses. Please advise also, with different names/addresses used i get same results...any hints??? ===================================================================== From: PLP To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: hmmmmmmmmmmmmm indeed Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:27:49 +0800 ===================================================================== From: PLP To: "'comments@aimsearch.hybernaut.com'" Subject: Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 12:30:03 +0800 well then...how'd we add to this lovely party? ===================================================================== From: mark w To: Subject: hahhah Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:46:20 +1100 hah ===================================================================== From: Ron S. To: Subject: Google Gag Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 20:46:20 +1100 Guys, That &@%$ was so funny! I saw it and immediately realized it’s potential to wreak havoc, misery and suffering on my IM friends. Which I did with glee :-) My best victim story was my boss. I so busted his ass. I had him screaming out loud, OH MY F&@(&ing GOD!!! I laughed so loud I almost wet myself. The look on his face was priceless and worth the 20 minute tongue lashing he gave me afterwards. Thanks guys!!! Your brilliance is now legendary. Regards, Ron S.