Yesterday, we poked fun at Microsoft’s tacky $10,000 online treasure hunt to get people to use IE8, at the domain TenGrandIsBuriedHere.com. We were hardly the only ones. Today, a developer at Mozilla, makers of IE rival Firefox, weighed in with his own way of mocking Microsoft: TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com.
The site is simply a Google Map zoomed out to a certain point. If you zoom in enough, you’ll find a surprise. The developer took exception to Microsoft calling Firefox “old” on its site. That is a bit odd since IE is much older than Firefox.
[thanks Alan]
This is great! LOL! I’d say Microsoft is desperate…
I need some help… can anyone help?
My gmail account got hacked, and by the ‘Activity Log’ feature of Google, I could figure out the IP address from where my email account was logged in.
The IP was 204.15.23.171
I do not know how to figure out which browser is this. Is there any software that can figure out whose machine is this where my account was opened and emails were tampered?
How to track down this hacker with IP 204.15.23.171 ?
http://www.netw...p=204.15.23.171
Facebook, good luck
hi AJ
hacking a gmail account… is possible??
Actually Mozilla is older than IE, if you consider that it came from the original Netscape code.
HAHA! That’s ridiculous! I love Mozilla. Them calling Firefox “old” made me laugh.
Ya That was pretty funny from Mozilla. :0
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Microsoft’s strategy is stupid… They’d better build IE on an open source rendering engine and focus on User Experience.
That was one of the tackiest promotions I have seen. And I guarantee, had they left it up, the prize would have been won through hackery and made them look foolish.
If you have to program easter eggs into your product to get people to use it, it’s probably not that good.
Holy shit. I just saw in the crunchbase listing that Microsoft IPO’d in 1986. Who’s old?
Isn’t this obvious? Websites designed for IE work only on IE!
Is M$ mocking its own standards?
Ha. They should have given $10K to anyone who could successfully code a site to work in IE6!
yes.. i agree with u…
WOW your website is a rip of dig or what
it’s india digg by the looks of it
I wonder if Microsoft will give the $10,000 as cash prize or is it converted into the equivalent of Microsoft products?
If its Microsoft products I guess no one will be interested to waste their time trying to find the clues.LOL!!!
The amount of coverage you have given Microsoft is pretty amazing! they must love you MG
Welcome to the next generation of the Browser Wars!!!!
This is an apt response! I guess there would be more to come…
hahah firfox crop circle thats funny! Whats MS doing…standing up for people to crack jokes on it??
Am I the only one to notice the letters created with plane, cars, and people below the logo? Definitely a browser war!
Microsoft 10K page is not responding
correction on that twittername
its good
$10000 or Crop circles?? Decision is easy for me…. Show me the money…
Nice… but were not all browser built on the open source framework? What was it called Mosaic or something?…
http://en.wikip...rg/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
yeah
Haha if you visit TenGrandIsBuriedHere.com using Chrome it says “You’ll never find it using tanished Chrome”, for Safari it says “boring Safari” and for Opera it says “You’ll never find it using that browser” — They don’t even bother making one for Opera…
history of browsers: ncsa mosaic was written largely by Marc Andreessen, who also wrote netscape. some time after netscape became popular, microsoft went back to ncsa and bought the right to use mosaic’s source code as the basis for internet explorer (another great example of microsoft’s “innovation” [read passing off others work as its own]). so its reasonable to consider mozilla, which is based on netscape, and thus the original mosaic, to be older than internet explorer which didn’t exist until sometime after netscape was created. nothing odd about the statement, just reflects the person making it is not ignorant about the history involved. must have really sucked for Andreessen to be have his company destroyed by an inferior product based on his own earlier work.
Buggy Browser call firefox as old???
Internet Explorer 8 doesn’t open Microsoft campaign’s site http://www.teng...dburiedhere.com ? Bing doesnt found it ? WTF ? LOL. Firefox always working. Don’t know if this is suppose to be this way. But whatever.
Not sure if it was on purpose or not, but TenGrandIsBuriedThere.com doesn’t work in IE 6. Remember the good old days when the biggest fight was over the blink tag?
And I miss the blink tag!
You can’t say that the promotion is not building buzz though.
This is the second article you wrote about it, and just think how many times this link is shared.
Ultimately, we are all doing the marketing for them. Regardless of if it’s negative publicity, they are getting exactly what they want. Therefore, it appears to be a very effective campaign….at least in the eyes of a marketer.
First ask microsoft to run their IE in all the OS.
Come on, Why? let them get lost on all the OS..
That is all whats missing? IE on Mac. Why are you cursing us?
Microsoft has lost it. Check out my CARTOON at:
http://www.pcdi...uried-here.html
I recommended Firefox to my clients for years because I felt that IE6 was slow and dangerous.
When IE7 came out I changed my tune, It wasn’t as fast as Firefox but it was secure.
Now that IE8 is out, its very secure and very fast, all the leading browsers are now milliseconds at most apart in speed,and mostly equivalent in security, I recommend upgrading to IE8 if my clients haven’t already, and they’re quite happy as a result.
Its human nature to become fanatical about things that aren’t really warranted. Whether it be cars or sports teams or operating systems, we forget that 99 percent of the world really doesn’t care.
Browsers are like blenders, they all do the same thing with the same competence.
But you miss a lot of stuff, like the fact that it doesn’t support modern webstandards for example. That holds back the web and is my major complaint against IE.
If you don’t count the fact that IE8 doesn’t even launch one time on two, yeah, it’s fast.
Firefox is like a BlendTec Blender!
you are telling your clients to choose IE?
IE8 is left back with 4 years.
Enough with them…..
all they did was stealing 1000’s of Hours of developers.
i love mozilla, and all my clients and friends use mozzila, i use internet explorer just when i need to see is it everything ok with the new web site view
LOL, TenGrandIsBuriedHere.com doesn’t work in IE6, IE7 or IE8. Didn’t anyone notice the plane and cars that spell out FX? Or how about the link to the video about the FireFox crop circle?
http://www.yout...h?v=l_KXhf1BI-k
Simple Awesome!
The contest is only open for Australians as per the T.O.S:
“Entry is open to Australian residents aged 16 years and over only. Entrants under 18 years should seek parental permission to enter. Employees of the Promoter, and their immediate families, its retailers, suppliers and associated companies and agencies are not eligible to enter.”
And I was just about to jump out of my seat to download IE8…. Oh well
Good spot.
A deliberate little clandestine ploy to dupe 1000s into downloading the browser, knowing fine well that no one reads the TOS.
In fact if you’re looking to sum up the difference between Microsoft and Google with a quick example, this is it. Google would have stated that it was for Aussie residents only on the main page.
Don’t Be Evil and all that jazz.
The marketing campaign director will get fired for sure!
Love watching everything Microsoft do get bashed here.
Kinda funny….and very telling.
FireFox or Google should come out with a compelling app or site that will get users to download their modern browser. Now is the time to push out IE!
$10k is in Oregon?!?!?
IE8 is garbage. Some JS features can’t even render properly and HTML5 is around the horizon which leads me to believe that IE will never support. I’m glad IE is losing users. They need a reality check and big doses of it too.
Microsoft already took the page down…
“We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found.”
Forget crop circles… i just crop dusted this entire artilce and comment string. how about them apples.
SeoProfy – June 18th, 2009 at 5:48 am PDT i love mozilla, and all my clients and friends use mozzila, i use internet explorer just when i need to see is it everything ok with the new web site view
I’m happy for you,but once again a browser is about as interesting to most people as a toaster.
If it’s secure and fast, which just about all are people are content,the most creative feature added to browsers for the average user, is tabbed browsing,since then nothing really tangible to the end user has appeared.
Its fun to be a technical person and think that the world hangs on our every word, but its just not true..having choices is good, but when it comes to browsers, most people would rather watch paint dry.
guys, i just got back.,,
…It’s not friggen there. geeze, what a stoopid waste nice of him to come up with that wild goose chase.
What a punkm im gonna go shower.$#%^
Why bother downloading IE8 when you can just change your useragent in firefox?
You get to play without the pain of actually using ‘that browser’
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0)
Check out MS site it got changed to get lost…in the hunt!! as a rollover
hahahahahahahah so many people got offended thinking it was get lost
http://www.pcdi...uried-here.html
Following article.
Looks like the winning page has already been found… or has is it?
http://tengrand...com/winner.html
Mozilla Firefox is always better. It has better security & better features. I use Mozilla Firefox always
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IE is losing out even its loyal users.