Comments on: Google Trends Features ASCII Art Of 9/11

By: dmacd

dmacd — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 02:53:35 +0000

Google Trends was spoofed again today with ASCII art that used a racially-charged epithet in to suggest that black people patronize a certain fried-chicken franchise.

Screenshot at http://www.amethystweb.com/trends2.jpg

By: aclark

aclark — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 12:55:43 +0000

Looks like a prank gone “big time” to me but its hardly art is it.

By: aloxe

aloxe — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 09:40:26 +0000

I am not sure we can call that ASCII art or even an ascii image.

By: Cohn

Cohn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:37:06 +0000

ok last time and them I am giving up… delete space between all numbers and letters to produce image

& # 9 9 9 2; & # 9 6 1 2; & # 9 6 1 2;

By: Cohn

Cohn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:34:44 +0000

oops it converted it… delete space before ampersands
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By: Cohn

Cohn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:32:28 +0000

Google Search:
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to produce the image.
Don’t know how you grabbed the page.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 22:00:14 +0000

Apparently this forum post might be the source of the queries:
http://forum.ebaumsworld.com/showthread.php?p=5328424#post5328424

By: edbloom

edbloom — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:15:05 +0000

looks like it’s still there – can’t believe they haven’t removed it yet – looks like the hackers are having a very good week with the whole twitter thing and now this – unreal

By: loongtim

loongtim — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:10:17 +0000

I remember this hoax email going around after 9/11. It claimed that if you typed out the flight number of the plane that crashed into the towers (Q33 NY) with Webdings font, it would display this image.

It will – except that the real flight # wasn’t Q33. Just a hoax. And this is just a violent prank as jordan8037310 already said above.

By: Cohn

Cohn — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:28:33 +0000

I don’t know how the plane got in there but based on the related searches showing up further down the list I would guess their servers got hacked:

anosmia Related searches:
404, mus musculus, musculus, error 500, ferrari f 2009