Ok, I was just watching TV with my brother and I saw a commercial for something called the Knowledge Generation Bureau. The commercial is of a man in a suit asking a woman a strange variety of questions. They are in a nondescript and otherwise empty room. The woman is answering all of the questions correctly and at the end of the commercial the man tells her "you'll do fine" or something to that effect. The screen then cuts to the words "Knowledge Generation Bureau" as a narrator says something like "Welcome to the Knowledge Generation Bureau".

The words are then shortened to: KGB and there is a website reference to KGB.com

Now, I did a lot of searches about KGB.com and the company in general, not really finding much out. I did find out that a lot of people said that the site tried to load malware onto their computers but this was after I had already been there without an attempt on my hard drive.

The site itself says that it wants to gather all the knowledge that is out "there" and place it all in one place. Kind of like wikipedia with links and has the categories: person, place, product or pleasure

Now, the commercial freaked me and my brother out just a little. I mean, why the hell would a company WANT to call themselves KGB? And when we went to the site there was a box that says "knowledge is everywhere. So is KGB".

I'm not saying I know exactly what the conspiracy is, but there is an alarmingly low rate of "knowledge" out there to find about this whole thing and the commercial did have some strange undertones to it...at least to me.

I looked for the video of the commercial but I couldn't even find that.

I saw the ad too. It was funny. My best guess is that it's a viral marketing campaign leading up to a Super Bowl ad.

Doing a Scroogle, it seems everyone is asking the same question you are. Most of the links are crap.

I don't think so. On the website it said that the company was started back in 2007, so it's not really "new" in terms of something just popping up the way it seems to have done.

i havent seen it yet (the ad)

but ya thats really bad form/taste

KGB?

very very bad form..
its very tacky

I think it is just smart 'outside the box' marketing. Come check out the 'KGB'. And your like did they really do that. No they didn't just do that. Dang now I am going to have to go see what it is all about. I wouldn't worry more than likelly just a marketing ploy. After all it made you go check and see what it was all about. Imagine how many other people done the same thing.

[edit on 7-1-2009 by Ant4AU]

As I am computer illiterate, I do not no what malware is. my guess is that it is malicious. Somebody could have maliciously planted malware with the site just to be an [your explicit term here] but like I said I am really computer illiterate. My ignorance probably shows in what I just typed. I did good to just learn how to put my sig. up all by myself.

OOhoooo. Score one for me. Thank you for the education and the complament on my sig. And not making fun of me. But I guess that really could have been the plan. Find away to make shure a lot of people would go to a site and then just slam them.

I clicked on the first link that came up and it DID try to load some crap on my computer that I had to end through the task manager... it would not stop and close even though I told it too... do not try and look this up... Someone or some company that wants to gather ALL of the information out there and put it in one place...NOT COOL..... you can have all the information you want... but you WILL NOT HAVE MINE!!!!!! too creepy bad marketing...even worse name. and even worse still acronym

it said the Knowledge Generation Bureau, which, after looking at Yahoo answers and about 15 seconds of the websites term and agreements, appears to be a texting Inquiry service. Maybe they could be playing on the old (KGB)-"Committee for State Security" name, or are they a functioning part of it?....


I used Verizon version like 7 times trying to find out where i could buy DVD's in a town i was staying in and it kept telling me it had no idea what i was talking about, but to be fair thats usually the same response i get here. maybe with the Kremlins Knowladge base they could hook you up with the awnsers?

But a "Ten minute" wait is too much...

[edit on 7-1-2009 by drsmooth23]

The last thing I want is a virus from this KGB site. I am not even going to the
link. But I will be checking in here for any developments.