Has the google cr-48 tracker died on you also?

Yep it's down. Some people started spamming the site.

Yea its been down for like 6+ hours already, why would anyone want to spam the site? I guess someone went mad 'cause they're not getting one haha

You do realize that by looking at the URL, a child could figure out that this website isn't true. If you really wanted to track a CR-48 notebook, you'd use the official Google website, which they don't have, so you're desperately waiting for something that most likely isn't going to come.

The "sketchy" thing to me is that there have been 0 copycat sites. Something with the amount of press this site has gotten would seem to me to have copycat sites going up wanting some of that Google Ads action. What is this site operator doing that is such a "secret method" of lookups? The UPS API will not give the info that this site gives, at least not with anonymous queries.

Just a hunch, but what if this person is recording the zip codes people are using to lookup their area and then based on that adding a few every now and then. Maybe not, but just an idea. Someone could easily make their site a dangling carrot for all of the wishful CR-48 owners that sit at work and hit reload all day while making this guy some easy Adsense $$$.

Lol. I think '7daysageek' gave out a pretty good idea. I can attest that addicted gamers tracking was dead on for a friends netbook. It even showed the updates of it getting delayed by the snowstorm us here in the mid-west got.

It's querying the UPS tracking API for reference numbers. These are assigned by the shipper (can be a description, customer name, or in this case sequential SKU blocks of 2000) so knowing the pattern would get you all of them. I played around with the reference numbers, and it seems like Google sent out 3 batches:

AAC1XXXXXX (up to AAC1001982)

AAC2XXXXXX (up to AAC2002127)

AAC3XXXXXX (up to AAC3002115)

All of these turn up 6 pound packages sent within the past few days, with the earliest being the 9th.

Source: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1996372

It's back up but the numbers haven't changed since the 16th. I'm guessing the "leak" it depended on has been plugged.

It got my friend's CR-48 delivery exactly right, so I was kinda depending on it since my friend didn't get the confirmation email from Google that they're supposed to be sending out if you're selected.

Of course, it looks as though it hasn't been updated in a while, so don't go off of it if you're dying to know if you're getting one or not.

Well, it turns out that one of the Cr-48s destined for my zip code showed up today and I'm now using it! I filled out the developer form and when a link to pilot test one showed up in my Chrome Developer Channel browser on announcement day, I filled out that form too. I am guessing it was the second one - following the pilot test link from the developer channel browser - is the one they picked.

Yea I've heard all over that there are still shipments going out every day, it's just that the AG tracker doesn't have the code for these new shipments, and that's why it only shows shipments from the 16th latest. Unless A_Gamer can find the new tracking numbers, the site really isn't any help for us anymore. I applied yesterday (12/20) and am patiently waiting.