[OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread André Warnier
Well, fellow Tomcatters, it is with deep sadness that I have to report that one of the most beloved tools used on this forum seems to have been hijacked. www.lmgtfy.com now seems to lead to a search page named Topeka, with a logo eerily reminiscent of something else, but which leads to a search

Re: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread Len Popp
That's terrible! I predict a humungous backlash from lmgtfy users, and they'll be forced to restore the old service. Probably by tomorrow morning. :-) -- Len On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 15:25, André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com wrote: Well, fellow Tomcatters, it is with deep sadness that I have to

Re: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread Christopher Schultz
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Len, On 4/1/2010 3:30 PM, Len Popp wrote: That's terrible! I predict a humungous backlash from lmgtfy users, and they'll be forced to restore the old service. Probably by tomorrow morning. :-) I've certainly registered my complaint! - -chris

RE: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise www.lmgtfy.com now seems to lead to a search page named Topeka By design (or at least intent). This is Google's 1 April response to the city of Topeka, Kansas officially changing its name to Google

Re: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread Ken Bowen
...Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore! On Apr 1, 2010, at 4:10 PM, Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise www.lmgtfy.com now seems to lead to a search page named Topeka By design (or at least intent

Re: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread André Warnier
Caldarale, Charles R wrote: From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise www.lmgtfy.com now seems to lead to a search page named Topeka By design (or at least intent). This is Google's 1 April response to the city of Topeka, Kansas officially

RE: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise

2010-04-01 Thread Caldarale, Charles R
From: André Warnier [mailto:a...@ice-sa.com] Subject: Re: [OT] Imperialism and sad demise We also did probably not get the coverage over here, about the Google/Topeka story, as this is the first I hear about it. Let's hope this works outside of the US: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/04