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27 January 2011

Has Metafilter been bought out by Google?

post by: mudpuppie at: 13:23 | 15 comments

Linkage to something that suggests such a turn of events?

posted by brina 27 January | 13:45

When I go to the site, I'm redirected to the Google home page. Tried various browsers, all the same.

posted by mudpuppie 27 January | 13:47

Huh. MeFi is working for me. Maybe it's a new firewall at the office?

posted by brina 27 January | 13:51

That happens to me with Twitter and Facebook all the time.

posted by Ardiril 27 January | 13:56

All your beans belong to us!

posted by Joe Beese 27 January | 14:01

Huh. MeFi is working for me. Maybe it's a new firewall at the office?

You mean they're on to me???

posted by mudpuppie 27 January | 14:09

Well, it's working now. Weird.

posted by mudpuppie 27 January | 14:09

We actually got bought out by Zombo.com but the decided that it was in the spirit of their core competencies to let us to continue to do whatever we wanted.

posted by cortex 27 January | 14:32

...except that link that says "Favorites" now goes directly to Zombo...

posted by oneswellfoop 27 January | 14:43

All your beans belong to us!

I think I broke something snerking at that.

posted by deborah 27 January | 14:49

This needs to be taken to MetaTalk. . .

posted by danf 27 January | 15:51

It's a DNS proxy problem on certain Cisco routers. I can't pretend like I understand it, I think it's mostly Comcast users(?). It happens to me all the time, I will try to load Facebook and get MySpace instead, or Yahoo. Here is some info about it:

http://homecommunity.cisco.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT160N-V3-has-serioius-DNS-issues/m-p/295284#M154543

posted by evilcupcakes 27 January | 15:51

Huh, WRT160N on Comcast. That totally squares with my situation.

posted by Ardiril 27 January | 16:22

My ISP is a large public institution. No Comcast here.

posted by mudpuppie 27 January | 16:42

Comcast owns the public now.

posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson 27 January | 16:50

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