Posts Tagged ‘conspiracy theory’

TechCrunch’s Subliminal Messaging (Conspiracy?)

by lux on October 10th, 2009

Subliminal advertising has always been the more talked about part of subliminal messaging. How about subliminal messaging through search results?

Go to TechCrunch’s search box, and search for anything – the longer your phrase, the better (you’ll have fewer results to wade through).

Scroll through the results – what do you find? All results from www.TechCrunch.com are correctly dated. All results from external sites are dated Dec 31, 1969. The subliminal messaging: any TechCrunch result is current. Everyone else is ‘living in the past’. How’s that for a conspiracy theory a la Web2.0?

TechCrunch Results

Of course, it’s probably just a harmless bug in their Content Management System but the conspiracy theory on subliminal messaging is obviously more fun! Someone please tell TechCrunch.

As you can see, it’s a a lazy Saturday here. Strangely enough, TechCrunch’s mention of conspiracy theories set this post in motion.