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by grexican 6251 days ago
really? people seemed to LOVE the disney.com redirect. They found it quite amusing :) It originally went to google though, like you suggested. We'll see how things test out and it might very well make it back to google.

Thanks for the feedback -eli

8 comments

You should redirect them to amazon using your affiliate link and hope.
The redirect to Disney is definitely clever and funny. But I have to agree with cedsav, the joke will go from cute to annoying pretty fast, google is better.
Yaw, Disney is safer for work, but still isn't what you want on your screen when your boss/coworker walks by.
I see how it can be funny, but the Disney homepage has some music playing, which kinda gives away that you're not doing anything work-related.
perhaps redirect to a google search for disney. That way, there is a slight joke, but we still get our google fix.
Define "people". How many, how diverse? Are these 'people' in your target audience? Can you extrapolate the opinion of those 'people' to hundreds of thousands of other people?
It would make more sense if the button was labeled, "I can't; I'm under 18!" I can't imagine many working people would be thrilled at the latest Pinnochio news.
disney.com made me laugh :)