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Old 07-12-2003
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A funny Google search.

I copied this from nV News. Maybe I'm the only one in the world who hasn't seen this, but it's pretty funny, at least if you aren't French.
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Pi$$ Take - 7/12/03 1:53 am - By: MUYA - Source: Email
Ok most of you guys know the search return joke after you search "weapons of mass destruction" on google. Now try searching "french military victories". Cheap shots all round
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Old 07-12-2003
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That joke is pretty old, you would need a screenshot of the original results because it has been used and talked about so much that it actually returns results.
http://politicalhumor.about.com/libr...yvictories.htm
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Old 07-12-2003
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Hey that's pretty cool tho. I never knew that.
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Old 07-13-2003
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it does not work any more yea

and imho i don' think its a really good joke

not that i defend anyone but just it's not a very nice humor to me ...
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Old 07-13-2003
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I'm not French, btw, FYI, but I don't see that as a joke.

I merely see it as 'something to talk about'.

Hey, whatdoyaknow'? We're talking about it.
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Old 07-13-2003
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Okay... maybe not....
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Old 07-13-2003
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lol, its kind of distasteful but its just an interesting google find, nothing more, man people take things too seriously a lot
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As the one who started this thread, I apologize to DigitalAlex and anyone else that was offended. That was not my intent. As SNGX said, it is distasteful and I wish I had not posted it. I hope it stops and dies right here.
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Old 07-13-2003
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Well, imo, it's not such a bad joke...

We all need some self insight and irony, and as such it's just a harmless joke...

I recently got it in the mail, and told a french friend of mine who had problems stopping laughing...

And btw: the joke still works, just remember to hit the "I'm feeling lucky" button, and you'll get to a html screenie of it...
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Old 07-13-2003
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umm.. I believe the "French Military Victories" one was put their by a hacker, at least thats what Google and a number of PC magazines claimed...

and the WMD one is down to that actually being the site with the best page rank
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Old 07-14-2003
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It's a fake page, it never returned those results...
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Old 07-14-2003
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Originally posted by wicka_wicka
It's a fake page, it never returned those results...
Well no duh, if u read above it doesnt work anymore. Follow the link (posted by StormBringer):

http://politicalhumor.about.com/lib...ryvictories.htm

and see the screenshot.
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I knew that, but it's a photoshopped pic or an page copied from Google and changed...that search never actually returned those results.
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umm.. I believe the "French Military Victories" one was put their by a hacker, at least thats what Google and a number of PC magazines claimed...

and the WMD one is down to that actually being the site with the best page rank
That doesn't make sense, if I were a hacker, I'd turn down the entire Google site. But I love Google, who doesn't? Oh, maybe the owners of other search engines.
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umm... aggasi, that is a screenshot of the page it returns now...

XtR-X same thoughts the hacker had, he wanted to get his own back on the French subtly, but he wanted Google to stay up. So he just fiddled with PageRank and linked to a fake page, which is what still comes up. However, it now comes up due to it having the highest PageRank legitimately
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Oh, never saw it from that point of view. It works...
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Old 07-14-2003
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http://www.blacktriangle.org/blogarc...31822026496594

similar reason the France one is top
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Old 07-14-2003
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Try this one: In Google, type "weapons of mass destruction," and click on "I'm feeling lucky."
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Old 07-15-2003
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Lol, that's clever. That's not a google hack or anything though. It just happens to be the first search result.
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Old 07-15-2003
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Try this one: In Google, type "weapons of mass destruction," and click on "I'm feeling lucky."
Haha Thats pretty good..

I've never knowen, what does the "Im Feeling Lucky" button do anyways? Does it just bring up the first scearch result?
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