Good Grief!

So, if you Google your date and find out that he or she is wanted by the FBI, you can always turn to booble.com–the adult search engine. This site was launched on Jan. 20th, and it didn’t take long for Google’s lawyers to insist that the domain be turned over to Google:

We have recently become aware of your website at http://www.booble.com (the Domain Name). This Domain Name is confusingly similar to the famous GOOGLE trademark. Your web site is a pornographic web site. Your web site improperly duplicates the distinctive and proprietary overall look and feel of Google’s website, including Google’s trade dress and the GOOGLE logo…We note that you have given interviews to the press in which you state that you intended booble.com to be a parody. We dispute your assertion that your website is a parody. For a work to constitute a parody, it must use some elements of a prior author”s composition to create a new one that, at least in part, comments on the original author”s works. See Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569. Your website does not comment on the Google website at all; it merely uses the Google look and feel and a similar name for a search engine.

I have no idea if booble is legal, but it’s pretty funny, especially the parody of Google’s logo. Link via techdirt.com.