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    10-21-2008 02:25 PM
    Maybe this is just a coincidental glitch but I have been trying to search "serious" on that other site, and it keeps saying 'no matches found'.

    Does that happen to anyone else? If so that is pretty funny that they blocked that search term.
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    10-21-2008 02:54 PM
    WOW! that's freaky
    If you find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck!
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    10-21-2008 02:55 PM
    Interesting. I know I must have typed serious at least a few times lately. Someone caught on.
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    10-21-2008 03:02 PM
    Reading the PM's are they?
    Warning: There will be no warning shots.
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    10-21-2008 03:25 PM
    It took them six weeks to send a form letter to a simple question about the performance of the site, I hardly think they could care enough to delete all references to this site,more than likely it is just a coincidence
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    10-21-2008 04:07 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Bobcat View Post
    It took them six weeks to send a form letter to a simple question about the performance of the site, I hardly think they could care enough to delete all references to this site,more than likely it is just a coincidence
    No I doubt they removed the references. I think they just blocked the search term. It was mentioned in another thread on here to search "serious" and when I did that came up. There are probably lots of folks that were searching on that term.
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    10-21-2008 04:14 PM
    Weird.
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    10-21-2008 05:15 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Tommy Gun View Post
    Reading the PM's are they?

    Whoop, we could be in some trouble boyz!!!
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    10-21-2008 05:25 PM
    gotta roll and shift with punches fella's..... I do internet searching for a living...

    http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...rious+offshore
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    10-21-2008 05:28 PM
    see, still there


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    Save the classic offshores.

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    ??? I'm missing something here....
    Here's what happened:

    A big huge internet forum munching monster named "internet brands" (IB) bought like 50 forums in the first half of 2008 for like 28 million dollars. They also bought OSO.

    Then the performance started getting bad, they migrated it over to their own servers and it's never been right since. Meanwhile... they mishandled the PR of the purchase, and have since seemed totally apathetic. Like a slumlord who buys 50 homes at once and can't maintain them all.

    Fast forward 6 months.... traffic has fallen off. The site is dying, fast. Many people went to Boatfreaks, and some other things happened as a result of IB's total mismanagement of the entire process. They have essentially killed OSO.

    One day... it will be like an internet rapture.
    Anybody in the know will be gone. IB will own a server and some software. They will have no real traffic.

    OSO will have become "IbbyOffshore." And it will have zero credibility in the real, serious, offshore world.

    OSO as we know/knew it will be a thing of the past.

    Roger Penske is on their board.

    I think that you are about up to speed now.:
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    10-21-2008 05:30 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Geronimo36 View Post
    gotta roll and shift with punches fella's..... I do internet searching for a living...

    http://www.offshoreonly.com/forums/s...rious+offshore
    Oh sht...here we go boys and girls.
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