McDonalds on Gofbot.com
Posted by nathan on 04 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Communications, random.
I was just watching television, and saw a very unique commercial for gofbot.com, which was supposed to be the next big thing–”Bigger than a Big Mac”.
The commercial showed many people passing along the so-thought viral idea of gofbot.com, saying it’s supposed to be “bigger than a Big Mac.”
At the end of the commercial, it shows the founders checking the site to see how many visitors they had…Total: 0000003.
Watch the commercial now:
And then the tag, ‘Nothing is bigger than a Big Mac.’ It was a McDonalds commercial after all. So I thought to myself, I wonder what this site is really?
So i went to gofbot.com, and it was the exact screen the founders saw when they checked how many visitors they had (which was very cool), only this time, it was Total: 0000004. Very Cleaver! My first thought was actually, ‘Whoa! i was the first person to click this after the commercial aired.’ that thought lasted about 2 seconds. This was all very cool.
So i clicked to see where it would take me (i assumed to a McDonald’s page), and i got this link: http://www.mcdonalds.com/burgers%20
It is a broken link! How crappy is that? Hundreds of thousands of dollars, and they can’t get a little link correct? (if you remove the ‘%20′ from the end of the URL, it works properly–in layman’s terms, some web guy added one extra space before he saved it!).
Send the extra 30 seconds and $5 actually testing your products. You’ll be glad you did.
EDIT: Just so people will stop telling me otherwise, I KNOW THEY FIXED THE BAD LINK SHORTLY AFTER I POSTED THIS!
10 Comments »
on 05 Jul 2007 at 11:35 pm 1.
Tara Lilly said …
Yeah, I just went and everyone is “visitor 4″. Boo. I think it would be cool if there were an actual working counter…
on 09 Jul 2007 at 9:02 pm 2.
Anonymous said …
It appears they fixed the link
on 10 Jul 2007 at 4:53 pm 3.
Zach said …
Tara is right it would be cool it gofbot.com actually added a real counter aside from the joke
on 12 Jul 2007 at 12:58 pm 4.
Deviin said …
If Gofbot did add up real numbers… then what WOULD be the number to be bigger than the big mac? Not that I actually like McDonald’s. But Tara and zach are right, a real counterr would make Gofbot.com cool and maybe more people would go to it and because of the link, they’d go to McDonald’s
But, I dont even like McDonald’s, but I used to like it when I was 4!
on 12 Jul 2007 at 8:31 pm 5.
honeyboo said …
When I Gofbot.com and then went to the next for McDonald it was working for me. I don’t know why it wasn’t working for you Nathan Diehl!!!!!!!
on 24 Jul 2007 at 10:41 pm 6.
Rio Honaker said …
Hey good luck with what ever you are trying
on 29 Jul 2007 at 9:03 pm 7.
sneeze said …
Im makin a real gofbot… bigger than a big mac… actually i wpould need more than 100 million hits or somethin like that
on 14 Aug 2007 at 1:07 pm 8.
Ryan Johnson said …
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on 15 Aug 2007 at 9:58 am 9.
The Alex said …
Has anyone else noticed at the end of MvDonalds latest ad, in the last few seconds, over the golden arches in the upper right side of the screen, there appears the symbol of Islam, the crescent moon and stars ?
on 29 Oct 2007 at 10:52 am 10.place of nathan. » Year in Review: Part 1 said …
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