OK, modernized “not in the dictionary” jokes aside, I couldn’t resist blind-typing Gullible.com into my browser last night, pretty much at the same time as the idea occurred to me. Seriously folks, forget about Facebook privacy settings, this is the habit you want to develop to make sure you never get a job at a company that cares about stupid things instead of output.
(Oh, have I got output.)
I kinda wish gullible.com was an actual site that did something. What, I don’t know, but it’s yet another Great Parking Tragedy… Or is it?
Where to start? OK, there’s the weird bit of dating advice, for sure. Oh, and then the demon stuff. What’s going on there?
Companies that run parking pages aren’t stupid. They’ve got lots of data to sift through, and they want to make the most of every page visit, so I figure they’ve got some clever split testing going on. Maybe I just happened on an outlier test that didn’t survive to the next round, but maybe, just maybe, parked pages are a better arbitrator of keyword relevance than the Google Keyword Tool (I just checked it for “gullible” and found no demons therein.)
Taking this a whole other direction (my coffee supply is nigh-infinite,) I think a cool movie or TV gimmick would be to hide information in plain sight on a parked web page. You could leave the URL anywhere you want, and people would just go to the site, see it’s crap, and leave. Meanwhile your secret agents could share info on link #5. Of course, this wouldn’t work at all because more people than we’d care to acknowledge actually click on the links… OK, a distant second choice would be to buy Adwords for a really really obscure search term, if it’s possible to even have a reverse Googlewhack anymore. (Technically, a Googlewhack involves just two words, not an obscure phrase, but I was a little surprised to see that I could even invent the phrase “reverse Googlewhack” – I just searched for it and didn’t get a million references to exactly what I’m talking about.)
Back on point: Gullible.com – dating advice and demons. The only other thing I’ll add is that the whois info for the domain contains a crazy Easter egg. For serious.
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