BigGoogle

September 15, 2004 5:37 AM

Google buys a web page
posted by srboisvert (16 comments total)

So, um...they're canvassing their revenue?
posted by Smart Dalek at 6:23 AM on September 15, 2004

Is that meta-meta?
posted by psychotic_venom at 6:40 AM on September 15, 2004

Has the Jakob done any usability testing on the new interface yet?
posted by gimonca at 6:59 AM on September 15, 2004

So, a company bought some art that was inspired by that same company...
posted by clevershark at 7:19 AM on September 15, 2004

For some reason I couldn't get this image to load.

A++++ LINKEER!!! WOULD CLICK AGAIN. ALL "BEST OF THE WEB" RECEIVED AS DESCRIBED, FAST SHIPPER
posted by mwhybark at 7:43 AM on September 15, 2004

Google bought a screen print, not a web page.
posted by Ynoxas at 7:53 AM on September 15, 2004

The original screen cap looks like its from a Winbox, I thought all artists used Macs or, if they were told Macs were not available, cut their hands off in protest.
posted by m@ at 7:55 AM on September 15, 2004

It's a painting, not a screen print. The title of the painting is "A Web Page".

Google bought A Web Page.
posted by tomorama at 8:08 AM on September 15, 2004

It's "best of the web" in the form of a painting! They're breaking boundaries here! Smashing paradigms! They're --

Oh, okay. The number of metas this is, when nested together, would cause even these perfectly nice (I'm sure) people to run out of paper.

Are they going to do this with other Web Pages? Because this could be the thin edge of something interesting. I don't think it's there yet, but -- it costs nothing to be encouraging.
posted by chicobangs at 8:23 AM on September 15, 2004

now they have to figure out how to index it.
posted by Hackworth at 10:36 AM on September 15, 2004

Google bought a screen print, not a web page.

everyone that reads this will gasp in epiphany...
posted by Satapher at 11:19 AM on September 15, 2004

Je ne pas une page Web.
posted by kaibutsu at 5:14 PM on September 15, 2004

*Ahem*

Ce n'est pas un page Web!
posted by kaibutsu at 5:15 PM on September 15, 2004

Je ne pas ...

Ce n'est pas ...

um ...

Ceci n'est pas une page Web.
posted by mrgrimm at 6:38 PM on September 15, 2004

oui oui!
posted by delmoi at 10:21 AM on September 16, 2004

It's a painting, not a screen print.

(Looks at link again)

Fine.

Google bought a painting traced from a screen print.
posted by Ynoxas at 3:10 PM on September 16, 2004