do this right now

Go to Google, type in "failure," and hit "I'm feeling lucky". Go! Enjoy!

Many thanks to Kyle_From_Ottawa.

Comments

  1. Marnie16 September 2005 at 11:48

    Bwa! Passing it on ...

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  2. Donna16 September 2005 at 14:55

    Oh, those clever Google folks! Right in my own backyard, I'm proud to say, I even know a couple of folks who work there.

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  3. laura k17 September 2005 at 06:29

    Google is a business. They're not going to set up a political joke.

    This one is very old, but always worth repeating!

    Btw, "miserable failure" works, too.

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  4. laura k17 September 2005 at 06:30

    Btw, "miserable failure" works, too.

    Oops, that's what David's link says.

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  5. Anonymous17 September 2005 at 17:39

    Here's the official Google explaination of how it happened...

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    Googlebombing 'failure'

    9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM
    Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products

    If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

    Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

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    OK Whatever!!
    It's still damn funny

    ALPF

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  6. laura k17 September 2005 at 19:08

    Thanks ALPF! I did wonder how that happened, but never bothered to look it up.

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  7. Crabbi18 September 2005 at 09:26

    I find it best not to question these things. IMO, it spoils the magic :)

    Thanks, L!

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