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Maybe I'm being dense, but where did googleunexplainephenomenon.com and addthemup.com come from? O.o

**Posted:** Thu Sep 17, 2009 4:45 am

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Jecai · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

I found googleunexplainedphenomenon.com from Page 1 of this thread. The poster was "belab" (guest), who could well be a collaborator. AdThemUp.com is linked from that site.

Checking back today, apparently 11.com is a nexus of sorts for a lot of the sites involved. This appears to be a highly coordinated cross-promotion involving not only google but dozens of major corporates. Of course I can't be sure that these entities are co-sponsoring rather than just being referenced by Google, but I'd bet on it.

The game is alluding to Lie Group E8, a mathematical model used in string theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E8_(mathematics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Exceptionally_Simple_Theory_of_Everything

**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 12:34 am

SteganosaurusRex · Veteran Joined: 15 Sep 2009 Posts: 117

aliens, where?

**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 1:07 am

feriwiccan

This is pretty neat. I'll bite. /lurk

**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:11 pm

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**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 4:34 pm

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Jecai · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

This is definitely an extensive marketing campaign. I realize I forgot to post earlier:

http:/www.yourworld.com/

This is a link to a nexus of sorts for the game. It's aliased through 11.com (and possibly others) and has links to a bunch of co-sponsors sites and minisites with references to e8, international time zones, etc.

Welles' birthday is a part of it, but only a small part. I think this was planned to coincide with a bunch of events for the purpose of initial misdirection.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 18, 2009 8:30 pm

KLind

Connected? URL is HGWells09.gif

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 1:45 am

MisterMalign

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 3:58 am

Jecai · Greenhorn Joined: 17 Sep 2009 Posts: 4

Maybe I've been wrong here. It might be pure opportunism, unrelated to Google, on behalf of googleunexplainedphenomenon.com and yourworld.com and its numerous sister sites.

I say this because it's been noted on the foremost above site that one T.J. Demas (to whose Twitter page a link appears on yourworld.com) purchased yourworld.com and at least some of its current sister sites over a year ago:

http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2008/domainsales08-26-08.htm

However, neither this fact nor Sunday's celebration of H.G. Wells' birthday confirms that Google is not collaborating with Demas or that there is not still an update coming on the 27th.

If this is a test as their {first 10-digit prime found in consecutive digits of e}.com recruiting campaing was, this could be misdirection acting as a filter.

But if there's some ultimate objective, the clues to which are embedded somewhere in yourworld.com and the sites linked therefrom, I can't figure out what it is. I guess I'm just waiting until the 27th.

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 4:37 am

veebee · Unfettered Joined: 02 Apr 2008 Posts: 551

Voila:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6213883/HG-Wells-birthday-Google-UFO-doodle-explained.html

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 8:38 am

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Kinda cool that they did this whole thing with their doodles. They should do it more often. ^^

**Posted:** Mon Sep 21, 2009 10:35 am

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**Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 8:29 am

riquardo · Decorated Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 280

So has this thing ended? That's a shame, I think we we're all wainting for something more.

**Posted:** Fri Sep 25, 2009 7:56 pm

MisterMalign

Looks like this hasn't ended yet.

I was just searching on Google and saw a barcode in place of where google usually is, it leads to a search for barcodes, and it's under the name 'barcode09.gif'

**Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:37 am

amandel

Ran the ' barcode09.gif' through ZXing Decoder. It spells "Google" Smile

The Washington Post explains why.

**Posted:** Wed Oct 07, 2009 5:44 am

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