Google has a sense of humour

[damo]

Don't know if this has been posted before but it is cute. Follow the instructions below.

> > 1) Go to www.Google.com < http://www.google.com/ .
> >
> > 2) Type in (but don't hit enter): "weapons of mass destruction".
> >
> > 3) Hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, instead of
> > the normal "Google search" button.
> >
> > 4) READ CAREFULLY what appears to be a normal ERROR
> > message. Make sure you read the whole error message.
> >
> > Someone at Google apparently has a sense of humor

 

[Phrebert]

D'oh.

 

[princess lovers mom]

 

[Figment22]

Try typing in "Miserable Failure" and then hit the I'm Feeling Lucky button.

Suffice to say, the person at Google with the twisted sense of humor must be a liberal Democrat.

 

[battricia]

Actually if you try 'waffles' , you might have a different feeling, Figment.

tricia.

 

[Figment22]

Originally posted by battricia
Actually if you try 'waffles' , you might have a different feeling, Figment.
tricia.

Interesting that they have both ends of the spectrum covered. I wonder what other entries elicit funny responses.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Not Google's humor, but bombing.................


http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

 

[damo]

Originally posted by Dan Murphy
Not Google's humor, but bombing.................


http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

That's different than what happens in the original post.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Same idea though, just a different topic. It is not Google's sense of humor, but rather Google bombing, can be engineered for any topic.

 

[damo]

Actually, in google bombing the normal results come up as well as the bombed results and the bombing is a result of independant web page builders adding the topics into their search line. The bombed result will come up first in the search results. In the above topic, no results come up other than a tongue in cheek error page about the topic not being found. This is not done by independant web page builders but by google itself.

The "miserable failure" and "waffles" are results of google bombing.

 

[Dan Murphy]

...........The "fun" factor has come into play, too, as some people have manipulated search engine results either for the sheer humor of it or to make political statements — for example, for several months now a spoof 404 page (i.e., a "page not found" error page) has been the top-ranked page in Google when users search on the phrase "weapons of mass destruction."

They are selling shirts and all...............


http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/about.htm

This is same url root as the one found on the search........


http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

 

[teh fish]

type in "french military victories"

 

[damo]

Story behind the 404 error page
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,994676,00.html



Pretty good trick!!!!

 

[disneychrista]

When I put waffels in I got a listing of waffel receipes.

 

[Dan Murphy]

Originally posted by disneychrista
When I put waffels in I got a listing of waffel receipes.

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient-menuext&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=waffles

 

[Manda1219]

Originally posted by disneychrista
When I put waffels in I got a listing of waffel receipes.

That's cuz you've mixed up your e and l...it's waffle