do this right now
Go to Google, type in "failure," and hit "I'm feeling lucky". Go! Enjoy!
Many thanks to Kyle_From_Ottawa.
Many thanks to Kyle_From_Ottawa.
help nominate tommy douglas as the face of the next $5 bill
There's a movement to put the face of Tommy Douglas on the next Canadian $5 bill. Wouldn't that be wonderful? And wouldn't it be a kick in the pants to those who seek to privatize our health care system? Go here to nominate Tommy Douglas.
Bwa! Passing it on ...
ReplyDeleteOh, those clever Google folks! Right in my own backyard, I'm proud to say, I even know a couple of folks who work there.
ReplyDeleteGoogle is a business. They're not going to set up a political joke.
ReplyDeleteThis one is very old, but always worth repeating!
Btw, "miserable failure" works, too.
Btw, "miserable failure" works, too.
ReplyDeleteOops, that's what David's link says.
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
Thanks ALPF! I did wonder how that happened, but never bothered to look it up.
ReplyDeleteI find it best not to question these things. IMO, it spoils the magic :)
ReplyDeleteThanks, L!