Example of Google Satire? or manipulation?
Go to Google and type in the search for - french military victories, click on "I'm Feeling Luck." You will be prompted with "Did you mean French military defeats?" Take note of the page you are actually on...it's not a Google result page; you've landed on http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html which "appears" to be a Google result page.
This implies either of two things; 1) Google is having fun with the French, or 2) Someone has hacked into Google. I believe it is Google having fun. Click on the link"Did you mean French military defeats?"and you will be taken to /france.html page; a list of the wars engaged by the French military over the past thousand years or so.
The list would infer that the French are military incompetents.
My point is that on March 13 2003 Google said "pages will be less visible as they fall down further in the search engine's results list."
It is 4 years later and nothing has changed.
Posted by Paul J. Bruemmer
8:07 AM
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My thought is that it is funny... I really don't know what to think. Seems like Google needs to do some clean-up, but this is not the only place where this sort of thing exists. It is actually quite common for employees to have fun like this.
There is evidence of this kind of horseplay in Microsoft's grammar suggestion tool, in imprints on microchips, in Disney movies, etc. People everywhere have a sense of humor and like to show their power and influence on this large of a scale. It is like making your imprint in fresh cement... Too tempting.
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