Buy Yourself A Wife

1.     What do you think the purpose of this site is? What might the goals of the authors be?

The purpose of Coincidence Design is to help rich men who may not have the best social skills finally get with their dream woman by watching her and finding out about her and then letting their client know these details then happen to make it so that the man and woman meet "accidentally".  

2.     Who is the author? If it’s not stated in clear view, try checking the contact information. How is the author’s authority established – or is it? 


The author's simply state that they are a private investigator and entrepreneur located out of Chicago. There are no names or anything else to give any information or establish credibility. 

3.     What do others say about the authority of this author? Type the author’s name into the search box at www.google.com and see what you can find out. 
Are they a known author?  Even when they are unknown, it doesn’t always mean they are telling lies.  What do you think?

Snopes, an internet myth debunking site says that this site has no authority and is actually fake.

4.     What organization sponsors the site? If this isn’t clear, try locating some hints—like maybe the e-mail address in the contact information.  Is there even a sponsor?  What does the sponsor(s) lead you to believe about the sites content?

There is no way to contact the investigators or any sponsors of which there are none. This makes the site seem even less credible.  

5.     Do an Internet search to locate the home page of the organization you identified. What can you find out about the organization’s mission?


 A quick google search found that this site has been up since the early 2000's and has been a hoax all along. The author apparently had even created other hoax sites before.

6.     What hints can you find in the URL? What kind of an organization sponsored the site? What kind of bias might be implied? The following list might help:

The site is a .com and obviously has personal opinions and for personal gain because their mission is to make $80,000 per male heterosexual client.They only take males who can pay that and are physically fit and seeking a female partner for marriage.

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7.     Go to www.register.com. Click on the Whois Lookup link just above the search box. Type the URL of the website you are checking into the search box, ending with the top-level domain (such as .edu, .com, .org, etc.). Click on the “Go” button. On the next page, type in the CAPTA letters and click the “Verify Code” button. Be sure to scroll down the next page to look for hints in the contact information. You might want to do a search at www.altavista.com to see what you can find out about the names you see.

After a bit of research, we were able to find that the website was created in Bellevue, Washington at a location that is now a dentiistry practice. 

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8.     Find out who is linking to this site. Go to www.altavista.com and type “link:URL (with no spaces. Example: link:www.wou.edu). Read through the results to see  -->

who is sending people to visit your site. Does this tell you anything?

The search did not come up with any results for any links. 



9.     Find out who is talking about this site. Go to www.google.com and type in “info:URL” (example:  info:www.amazon.com). At the bottom of the page, click on the link, Find web pages that contain the term 


There is a link to the website that is from a previous session of this class in 2010. Other than that there was nothing of significance.  

10.  Check to see if there are reports that this information is a hoax. Try some of the following sites:

Snopes has an article about this website that includes an old no longer active link to an article about investigating the design website. 

Note: type in and search for key words, not the website address.