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ed
SearchIRC Staff
Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 367
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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 Posted: Apr 01, 2006 9:12am Post subject: SearchIRC has a new owner! |
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We are proud to announce that Yahoo! has agreed to purchase SearchIRC for an undisclosed sum. Everyone here at the SearchIRC team is thrilled to be joining the Yahoo! family. Yahoo! has decided to expand their search efforts, and clearly SearchIRC was an appropriate choice. Our services will assist Yahoo! in indexing all of the world's information. SearchIRC is another great addition to Yahoo!'s family of Web 2.0 sites.
Don't worry, all of the current SearchIRC staff will stay on board at Yahoo! so we can continue to provide quick and fast service as we always have. However, due to corporate policy - we will be removing all Warez listings, as well as any network that carries any warez activity.
About Yahoo!
Our mission is to be the most essential global Internet service for consumers and businesses. How we pursue that mission is influenced by a set of core values - the standards that guide interactions with fellow Yahoos, the principles that direct how we service our customers, the ideals that drive what we do and how we do it. Many of our values were put into practice by two guys in a trailer some time ago; others reflect ambitions as our company grows. All of them are what we strive to achieve every day.
About SearchIRC
SearchIRC was created by Jason Hamilton, an IRC administrator who recognized a need in the IRC community. Server resources are a valuable commodity. A good deal of bandwidth and cpu is used by people who run /list to get a network's current channel listings for their own personal use. Its not easy to find specific topics or channels in the thousands of channels returned by large networks. What if your friends tell you to meet them in a channel, but you have no idea which network? You can't go hopping from network to network, running /list to see where they are.
There had to be a better way.
So SearchIRC was born.
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SearchIRC
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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 4:53pm Post subject: |
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Hmm... I dunno what to say to this, personally I loathe Yahoo (but thats just personal preference), and I really enjoy the non-corporate nature that SearchIRC had about it (it wasn't under the control of some legal team where every decision took months to do -- I'm still trying to convince one network to upgrade...).
Oh well, it was bound to happen sooner or later. SearchIRC can only improve, I suppose
| Ed wrote: | | However, due to corporate policy - we will be removing all Warez listings, as well as any network that carries any warez activity |
Well, there goes rizon, EFnet, Undernet, Quakenet (generally, the 4 largest networks that are indexed), and maybe a few hundred of the smaller networks that promote xDCC/warez. |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
Location: IRC
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 6:09pm Post subject: |
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Well actually its now april the 2nd (in the uk, and everywhere east of the uk).
So either the joke is on searchirc, OR, they really mean it  |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1181
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 6:18pm Post subject: |
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| braindigitalis wrote: | Well actually its now april the 2nd (in the uk, and everywhere east of the uk).
So either the joke is on searchirc, OR, they really mean it :P |
I don't even celebrate christmas, so it must be real.
They told me $2,000 was a good price. What do you think? |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
Location: IRC
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 6:19pm Post subject: |
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| Jason wrote: | | braindigitalis wrote: | Well actually its now april the 2nd (in the uk, and everywhere east of the uk).
So either the joke is on searchirc, OR, they really mean it |
I don't even celebrate christmas, so it must be real.
They told me $2,000 was a good price. What do you think? |
hahahahahahahahahaha
oh lord, you really got skanked jason, i wouldnt part with it for any less than $2500! |
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Stefano
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Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 527
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 8:03pm Post subject: |
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| will you be removing undernet for example for having warez? |
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Stefano
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Joined: 03 Apr 2005
Posts: 527
Location: Beirut
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 8:40pm Post subject: |
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/me came back..
na you must be joking i see google ads and nothing up and down yahoo
bullshit
nice one :p |
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PingBad
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Joined: 05 Feb 2005
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Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Apr 01, 2006 9:52pm Post subject: |
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2 and a half grand? screw that dude...
Trademe (local auction site) went for 700 million... however, the buy-out made TM worse (their success commission - ie: if you sell something, you're expected to pay a percentage of the auction funds to trademe as a fee, which is fair enough - just doubled) |
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Jason
SearchIRC Developer
Joined: 03 May 2003
Posts: 1181
Location: Tampa, FL
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 10:15am Post subject: |
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| yeah :) I wouldn't bother selling for $2,000. My costs for JUST hardware and bandwidth over the years is well over 15x that amount. |
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ed
SearchIRC Staff
Joined: 25 May 2003
Posts: 367
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 6:25pm Post subject: |
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| In case you still haven't caught on, this was an April Fools joke. |
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Aven
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 7:22pm Post subject: |
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lol, good one  |
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Alpha
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Joined: 29 Dec 2005
Posts: 206
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 8:15pm Post subject: |
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Wow.
SearchIRC is a good aquisition. If I had 15k floating around, I'd buy it. |
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PingBad
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Posts: 2026
Location: New Zealand
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| Posted: Apr 02, 2006 11:33pm Post subject: |
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| ed wrote: | | In case you still haven't caught on, this was an April Fools joke. |
*puts on homer simpson face*why you little...*strangles ed* |
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MexDownunda
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Joined: 19 Sep 2005
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| Posted: Apr 03, 2006 8:22pm Post subject: |
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| ed wrote: | | In case you still haven't caught on, this was an April Fools joke. |
TG for that!!!
Well done!!! You had everyone going!!!  |
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Safer_Sephiroth
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Joined: 18 Nov 2004
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| Posted: Apr 04, 2006 3:04pm Post subject: |
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| hahaha! Good April Fool's joke! You made us all do double-takes on that one. = |
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