Subliminal advertising has always been the more talked about part of subliminal messaging. How about subliminal messaging through search results?

Go to TechCrunch’s search box, and search for anything – the longer your phrase, the better (you’ll have fewer results to wade through).

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Scroll through the results – what do you find? All results from www.TechCrunch.com are correctly dated. All results from external sites are dated Dec 31, 1969. The subliminal messaging: any TechCrunch result is current. Everyone else is ‘living in the past’. How’s that for a conspiracy theory a la Web2.0?

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Of course, it’s probably just a harmless bug in their Content Management System but the conspiracy theory on subliminal messaging is obviously more fun! Someone please tell TechCrunch.

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As you can see, it’s a a lazy Saturday here. Strangely enough, TechCrunch’s mention of conspiracy theories set this post in motion.

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