I am 100% certain Google's lawyers are, as we speak, seeking a stop-and-desist court order against Booble; better have a look quick, before it disappears. Pretty amusing concept, I must say. Oscar Wilde was so right: imitation truly is the sincerest form of flattery.
"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
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1 - TDavid
Until they are busted, well, they still gave a front page recip to Google ;)
2 - TDavid
Good call, joe, the legal battles have begun between Google & Booble. Booble is calling itself a parody.
3 - SAB
But, being funny does not excuse Booble’s other problems any more than eating lunch at Subway excuses crimes.
Designed with a striking resembleance to Google, a new pornography search engine was launched on January 20. Booble.com was hit with so much traffic just 24 hours after its launch that its servers went down temporarily, trying to serve over 100,000 requests. How was this “marketing success” achieved?
Remember MikeRoweSoft vs Microsoft. Microsoft conceded that it may have taken its trademark rights “a little too seriously” in pursuing the 17-year-old Canadian high school student and settled amicably. The settlement followed a crush of international publicity, much of it casting Microsoft as Goliath vs. Rowe as David, which resulted in hundreds of thousands of visitors to MikeRoweSoft.com.
One week later, Booble appears sending press releases positioning itself to be the David in a fight against Google, which it claims it merely wants to parody.
But Booble’s founder is no Mike Rowe. Booble’s founder has an established sister porn site, Sir Rodney.com. Mike Rowe was also not earning money from everyone of click as Booble/SirRodney does. Unlike Mike Rowe, Booble’s founder is too embarrassed to give his name because he does not want to be associated with porn, while at the same time mocking Google for not wanting to be associated with his porn.
I have never been a fan of large companies over aggressively enforcing their trademark rights a position I have stated in my eBook on business domain names, at http://www.seemly.com. But in this case, it’s likely that Booble intentionally got itself into this trademark mess for the publicity and is a disgrace to legitimate trademark difficulties such as MikeRoweSoft.
A harmless publicity stunt? Not to Google’s image or legal costs.
4 - Mmmmm
A FreeBooble Search Engine ?
Free isn't an option today!
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5 - rob
booble.