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January 12, 2006 7:01 AM

Best Google Search of The Day

From the guys who brought us Candy Bar Sex (Chris Wand and his dad Martin) comes the best Google search I’ll do today.

  • Go to Google.
  • Search for “French military victories”.
  • Hit “I’m Feeling Lucky”
  • Laugh (unless you are French, at which point you should start a petition to boycott Google)

Entertainingly, when I do an “I’m Feeling Lucky” on my name, my blog comes up.  Maybe I should write a Greasemonkey script that changes the button to “I’m Feeling Ego-Self-Referential.”

Posted in: Great Stuff

COMMENTS (10)

Quite funny indeed. If you do the same with "US military history", what will pop up is what we actually think about everything related to military. This may explain some recent transatlantic discrepancies on how to manage world's affairs.

Cheers from Paris, France.

Marc , January 12, 2006 9:29 AM

Kind of like the old stand up routine regarding the Canadian Air Force...shouldn't it be called more the Canadian Air Suggest because they are not really going to "force" anything.

Tim O'Malley , January 12, 2006 10:14 AM

What's amazing is that this particular googlebomb has stood up for so long. I first saw this one a couple of years ago. Indeed, the last-modified header says May 14, 2001 - I'd always thought this was in reaction to France's anti-war stance in Iraq but it predates even 9/11, if Last-Modified reflects the actual file date.

Gordon Weakliem , January 12, 2006 10:31 AM

Dude, that one is at least two years old :-).

Jeff Clavier , January 12, 2006 10:49 AM

That's halarious.... if it wasnt for the U.S. back in WWII, the french would be speaking German.

zmann , January 12, 2006 8:51 PM

I can name one off the top of my head: Yorktown.

Fazal Majid Author Profile Page, January 12, 2006 10:01 PM

Zmann... if it wasnt for the French military aid back in 1780, the american would be speaking Cockney.

Peter , January 13, 2006 1:36 AM

I'd not judge a country by the number of wars they won (or pretend to have to) but rather by the number of wars they avoid by their ability to solve a conflict instead of wiping it away with a couple of missiles

Christophe , January 13, 2006 7:44 AM

Didn't we always know it?! ;-) Well, at least the have great cheese!!!!

Ben Neumann , January 14, 2006 1:38 AM

Be careful not to click through the link. A reader emailed me that SiteAdvisor classifies the link / site as potentially having spyware.

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/albinoblacksheep.com
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/albinoblacksheep.com/downloads/69752/

Brad Feld Author Profile Page, January 16, 2006 11:13 AM

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