AIMSearch Prank Going Away
from the bye-bye dept
In a very funny hoax, someone set up a site that pretends to be Google, and lets you search for any AIM conversation log between two users. You just put in two user AIM IDs and you can read their chats. They page about the site says they got it through the Freedom of Information Act. Google is not at all happy about being associated with this joke and have already forced the site to change the logo so that it says Googol, instead. And, apparently, the site will go away by the 14th thanks to legal pressure from Google. It's damn funny, so you should try to check it out before it goes away. To read any AIM conversation between any two users go directly to the site.
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Awesome!
I didn't realize I had said all those things... no more drunken stupor AIM sessions for me!
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too bad i missed the fun.
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Gee, now I'm confused!
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