Ten Grand Is Buried There
By now many of you have probably seen this new Microsoft Australia campaign, “Ten Grand Is Buried Here.com,”1 which calls Firefox “old” and Safari “boring”:
I’m not sure what this is saying about me, but my immediate reaction was to go check whether tengrandisburiedthere.com was available. To my surprise, Microsoft had yet to snatch it up! A few hours later, here’s the result:
Go ahead, visit the site and give it a try!
Note: Not being a marketing guy, I just threw some text together to introduce Firefox. If someone has some better copy for this display, please let me know.
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As of this writing, this domain actually has yet to serve anything. ↩
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June 17th, 2009 at 7:39 pm
"It's the only browser capable of cracking all the clues." - At first this made me think that some of the clues will require some quirky IE8 behaviour which is why it won't work in other browsers. However, could there be a collection of standards-based capabilities that only IE8 supports?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Dan: standards from w3c require at least two vendor implementations. Until two browsers support a draft it can’t be called a standard.
But I could be that IE8 implements some draft standard. I find it unlikely though.
June 17th, 2009 at 8:25 pm
My guess would be something gamma related. Is there some specific colour profile behaviour only IE has access to on Windows? Does IE do something differently there?
June 17th, 2009 at 8:46 pm
Just press the (+) a few times. Lol
June 17th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
And the website does not work in IE8
June 17th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Bravo!
June 17th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Use User Agent Switcher addon in Firefox and you'll see the site. Seems that MS guys only check for user agent string and send you a page without the clues if there's no "MSIE 8.0" strign in it. Even IE7 shows a different page without clues.
June 17th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Ya… running IE 8 here and I still can't see the clues… it accuses me of using IE7 !FAIL!
June 17th, 2009 at 11:02 pm
Looks like tengrandisburiedhere.com is no longer responding… Awkward!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:18 am
What I said was that there could be a collection of standards that it supports exclusively (making it all the more unlikely though), so that no other browser could solve all of the clues. IE8 supports querySelector for example, so that if one of the clues involved that, Firefox would be ruled out of being able to solve all of them as the implementation is in 3.5 which hasn't released yet.
June 18th, 2009 at 12:54 am
Give me "tengrandisburiedwhere.com" - and the Marianas Trench!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I was thinking of buying that one too… also tengrandisburiedeverywhere.com .
June 18th, 2009 at 12:58 am
I've yet to get it to produce anything… heh, their loss.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:03 am
What is thiss about, trying to get Firefox users on IE. I highly doubt that IE can do something Firefox can't.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:15 am
Safari does querySelector though.
It's probably just plain old UA sniffing, if you go to the MS page with IE8 + Compatibility list updates enabled it says you're using IE7 (because microsoft.com is in the list) and that you should upgrade to IE8.
June 18th, 2009 at 1:29 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 1:30 am
just keep zooming from where you are lol
June 18th, 2009 at 2:50 am
…it won't work on FireFox? In other words, the site must use a vile combination of viruses and bad write-up.
No thanks, Microsoft. Instead of the money, why not give us an open-source browser? :/ Wait, I already have one…
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June 18th, 2009 at 8:55 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 9:10 am
I just had a thought… If lots of people visit the 'Ten Grand Is Buried Here' site in IE8 and click the compatibility view button, won't the site eventually be blacklisted by Microsoft (forcing IE8 into IE7 mode automatically), so that no one will be able to see the clues?
June 18th, 2009 at 9:26 am
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June 18th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
IE is steeling HOURS of our time, as developers and designers…….
You get lost
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June 18th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
It looks like it's still down, too— as well as no DNS records anymore. Flushing my DNS cache doesn't seem to do anything either… Did someone win already, or are there serious issues?
June 18th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
Whoops, I see! Their domain just isn't working, but the page on Microsoft is now back up.
June 18th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
IT rocks..!!
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July 31st, 2009 at 4:18 pm
thanks for article very