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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 11:08 am
Try this soon, before Google fixes its
site:
1) Go to <http://www.google.com
2) type in (but don't hit return): "weapons of
mass destruction"
3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, instead
of the normal "Google search" button
4) Read what appears to be a normal error
message carefully. Read the whole page. Someone at Google really
has a sense of humor.
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kev
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 12:43 pm
colorbook,

Type in french military victories

same way.
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colorbook
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 01:00 pm
That's interesting too. I take it the Google programmer is not French.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 01:11 pm
Hi Colorbook,

There's an ongoing discussion of that feature of Google here on our boards if you're interested in further details about it.

http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=267513#267513
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colorbook
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 01:31 pm
Thanks Butrflynet. I did a search before I posted but came up with nothing. Thanks for letting me know. I'm learning as I go along.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 03:16 pm
So am I. Wink

That's what's so neat about this place. Smile
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Craven de Kere
 
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Reply Sun 28 Sep, 2003 06:08 pm
Remember that it is not Google doing this. It's relatively easy and anyone can do it. It's called a Google bomb.

Google *REALLY* dislikes these pages as it is a false result. It's showing a joke and a deliberately misleading one.

But the pagerank system they use can sometimes be abused.

One of the first such Google bombs was done as a prank on a programmer. A few of his "buddies" did a Google bomb on him and made his website the number one result for the query "worthless hack".
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