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| March 31st, 2004
Horndog.com Launches on April Fools Day From the Creators of Booble New York, March 31 - Bob Smart and the team of scamps who brought the Booble.com search engine parody to millions of people around the world have chosen April Fools Day to unleash their new entertainment web site, Horndog.com. "Horndog is for everything men are interested in," says Bob. "Except sports, gambling, and guns. Oh, and beer." In its inaugural issue, Horndog continues to mine the themes of sex and humor that made Booble.com so wildly popular. The site's content channels include "Horndog Humor", "Cool Stuff", "Booble", and "Sir Rodney", a respected online porn critic. Hustler Magazine just recognized SirRodney.com as its May "site of the month." In addition, Booble.com today takes its Google parody to the next level with a special April Fool's IPO (Incredible Parody Opportunity). A video news release of this "historic humor event" planned for April 1 was cancelled when satellite news distribution outlets abruptly refused to run Booble's new video, citing the conservative climate caused recently by FCC crackdowns, and the recent flap over a poorly sourced "news piece" produced by the White House, in which an actress portraying a journalist touted the administration's medicare bill. However, the video is now available on the Booble.com site, along with Booble's French language television commercial and new footage of the Booble blimp, which has been bringing its message of mirth to the people of Asia. "There is no better day than April 1st to launch our flagship site, Horndog.com, " says Bob. "This is an important holiday for those of us who mine laughter from the decline of western civilization. This is what the web was made for. " February 24, 2004Search Leader Outraged Taunted by Tatas dot com New York, February 19 - Booble.com, the racy parody of Google, was broadsided yet again by the search engine giant, whose senior trademark lawyer has promised to "tuck the Booble name back into the softly padded embrace of obscurity". In response to Google's attempt to squelch the humor site through legal threats, Booble has launched TauntedByTatas.com. Booble founder "Bob" has declined to commission another expensive legal response to the search leader. "We stand by our response to Google's demands three weeks ago." said Bob. "The law recognizes that intelligent people can disagree on what's funny." Offended that Booble is "parading around in public ... doing things polite search sites prefer to engage in more discreetly" Google repeated its demand that the parody site shut down. The latest e-mail from Google's legal department goes on to claim - hilariously - that Booble.com is "grabbing our assets and claiming them as its own." Bob, supported by the law, good old-fashioned American common sense and the overwhelming popular response to Booble, strongly disagreed, and urged the public to decide for themselves by visiting Tauntedbytatas.com, "the home of Google humor." He also flatly denied that he has ever grabbed Google's "assets", pointing out that the headquarters of Google is located 3,000 miles away - well out of reach. Bob asserts he is not breaking any laws. "Nonetheless, we offered to negotiate changes in our site and our logo, but Google will settle for nothing less than our domain. We can't afford to fight with lawyers, so we're going to use more humor. Tauntedbytatas.com is our answer to Google's demands." The entire text of Google's letter can be seen at Booble.com/legal.html. Bob and the team of NYC web developers who created the Booble.com site as a lark were astonished when the site became an instant sensation, with so much traffic it had to increase its servers from one to seven just hours after it launched January 20. "We're just poking fun. Though we'd like to thank Google for unselfishly helping to keep our parody site in the news," said Bob. Saturday, February 14th, 2004 Alone on Valentine's Day? Play with our boob(le)s Booble.com expands its lampoon of Google New York, February 14 - Booble.com, the Google parody that is making everyone smile, today unveiled its Valentine's Day site, which expands its lampoon of the search leader. This time the parodists take aim at the cute characters that usually adorn the Google site on holidays large and small. In addition to the randy cupid which flaps its wings at the now famous Booble boobs, the anonymous creative team behind the parody has also added interactive features to the breasts themselves. "These boobs are packed with fun," says spokesperson Bob. Users can mouse over the boobs to activate the interactivity. Booble.com is also featuring four of its favorite free Valentine's e cards from Australian humor site Cards-n-Toons, including the hilarious "Teddy the Pelvis" and "International Orgasms". Booble, which launched on January 20, was immediately hit with a cease-and-hand-over-that-domain notice from Google. The company responded with its own legal letter on January 26, which laid out its legal case and concluded with an olive branch: "we ask that Google reconsider its objections and accept the Booble web site in the spirit that it was intended - as a parody." Bob says his company has not heard from Google since. The legal correspondence with the search leader is available on the Booble.com web site. The Booble.com web site continues to soar in popularity. "We're getting over a million unique visitors a day," says Bob. "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." In addition to play on hundreds of media outlets in the past two weeks, Booble has become a hot topic on message boards like Slashdot. "Like all good art," says Bob, "Booble stimulates a lot of passion." [Back to top] Monday, January 26th, 2004 Taunted by Tatas: Booble Draws Threats From Search Leader Following its public debut last Tuesday, January 20, BOOBLE.COM was hit with so much traffic just 24 hours after its launch that its servers went down temporarily. "The one-two punch of the Sydney Morning Herald and the Hindustan Times brought us to our knees" says anonymous founder "Bob" (a former executive for one of America's leading online companies). At one point, Booble servers were besieged by several hundred thousand simultaneous search requests. The company has since added capacity. "This is a high class problem", says Bob. "People love this idea." News of Booble's launch also brought a notice from The Google Trademark Enforcement Team, which read in part: "We note that you have given interviews to the press in which you state that you intended booble.com to be a parody. We dispute your assertion that your website is a parody. 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." "If we weren't commenting Google's logo and functionality, and the way men use the web, we wouldn't be hearing from them now." Says Bob. "We responded with our own letter, asserting our right to parody under the first amendment. The entire universe gets the joke. Only a lawyer could say 'Booble' without smiling." Booble has made its correspondence with the search leader available on its website, where users can enjoy also the parody of the Google logo, and search for porn if they are so inclined. "We have just begun to fight for our right to parody," vows Bob. [Back to top] Tuesday, January 20th, 2004 Booble Me, Baby Search With a Smile! LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Finally, a search engine designed to cut through the confusion and clutter around adult content on the Internet has arrived: Booble. Booble is intended to be a funny parody of the world's largest and best known search engine. The punch line is that unlike popular search sites, Booble actually works for the adult category. Anyone who has tried to search adult content using mainstream search engines knows they only lead to confusing porn sites mined with viruses, pop ups, and credit card scams. This is because online pornographers know how to manipulate the system so that their sites are listed first, regardless of quality or value. Booble can't be fooled because each of its 6,000 + listings have been edited and classified by hand, not by the computer algorithms used by the major search engines. In addition, Booble's listings often contain pricing information and, where applicable, Booble directs users to site and product reviews. Best of all, Booble is 100% free to consumers. Booble is the brainchild of a former senior executive from one of America's leading online services who now lives in New York City with his wife, a French fashion model scandalously younger than he. More information on http://www.Booble.com. [Back to top] |
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