• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Ok, I did a search on Google for I Love Bees, and on the right, in the sponsored listings, there was a lone adword:

and yet
i remember
what are these errant memories?
www.errantmemory.com


So I clicked on it, and was taken to a strange page with a Macromedia flash animation. Some text flew up on the screen :

what...
am I?
bits of data
sequences of numbers
and yet...
I remember
what are these...
errant memories?

Then pictures of famous people flash up, Neil Armostrong, Elvis and Martin Luther King are the first three. Each one of these pictures is accompanied by a number, sometimes with a dot. Here's the code:

3. 8. 56. 51 .0 .53. 7. 150 .3. 15.

All of this is played over a piece of music. I don't recognise it, but it kinda sounds like the Halo theme (although that's probably me looking for a connection that isn't there!). The animation just repeats after the sequence finishes.


Now, I can't see any connection to Halo, besides the "I Love Bees" trigger for the adword. Now I've done some searching, and this is the ONLY phrase that triggers it. "I Love Bee" doesn't trigger it, "Love Bees" doesn't trigger it, "I Love" doesn't trigger it, and "I love Bees +anything else" doesn't trigger it. So someone is bidding on the exact phrase [I Love Bees] (I work with Google Adwords, so trust me). Every click on the ad costs the advertiser $0.05 US (I presume it's American), yet there is no exit on the site. No links at all.

This is very strange, people don't use Adwords like this. People use Adwords to sell something, and hence make money. Or to promote charities. No one uses adwords to divert traffic to a site with a cryptic message, triggered by only one search term. Well, except Bungie, perhaps ;)


Any ideas anyone?

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Posted by: zomby
maybe the start of an ILB equivalent for Halo 3?

Maybe...that would be good, although it could lead to huge expectations and then people getting dissapointed like what happened with halo 2.
Good find, i'll go check it out.

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

could those numbers be and adress or phone number of some sort?

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Posted by: A SMURF
wut do you do if you work for google???

I don't work *for* Google, but managing sponsored listings for other companies is part of my job.

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

if theres another i love bees thing im going to have to blow up my computer.

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Not another one.

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Does anyone know when this ad appeared, coz if it was before halo 2, was released chances are it's got nothing to do with halo.

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

wow this is deep. we oughta keep this on the front page for a few days and see if the bungie community cant come up w/ something.

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Does sound very ILB'ish does'nt it, and considering it was'nt started till well after the release of Halo 2 kinda makes me begin to wonder a bit.

[Edited on 1/9/2005 3:52:38 PM]

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

are they some sort of old morse code or anything like that if you link them up with the numbers and all the numbers appear next to a person or in one case a picture of a newspaper/book maybe the codes in there names as well initials or something plus most of them people are dead ACCEPT johnny depp ??

most them people are really and i mean REALLY famous people but johnny depp and o j simpson ??
and as for the other things they are ........... strange like the atom bomb ?

and jesus ? he might be the religion link to the covenant ?

or maybe we are all talking out arses or maybe just me

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Alos notice that Jesus's number was 7. Interesting?

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

This is interesting. ILB was freekin' fantastic. ILB was also somewhat difficult to figure out, for example: deciphering the SPDR code.

This new thingie seems very amatureish. I would keep an eye on the ARG community to see how they react to it.

• Anonymous User (Deleted)

Well you can't deny that's it's there, and does sound like it's linked with ILB's. The Terminology is very similar.