Does Google hate the French?

[Major Kong]

Go to google.com type in "French military victories" then hit "I'm Feeling Lucky". Why would they do this? Someone should send them le bomb nuetron.

[matt_mcl]

I could try to pretend this sort of thing was kind of funny the first seventy-nine thousand times, but to pretend it was funny subsequent to that would truly strain either my credibility or everyone else's credulity.

[Lobsang]

Well I found it funny! (and I am on the frenchie's side re:war in iraq)

It may be 'old' but it was the way they said it - "Did you mean: french military defeats"

[Airman Doors, USAF]

I thought it was pretty funny. I still do.

It's not like it's not true or anything.

[Brutus]

Damn, that was funny!

[Major Kong]

I would think it was funny too, if Google didn't claim to be the premier search engine on the web. What if I am really looking for information on French military victories? Google has no place making jokes at what may be a real search.

[The Physiognomist]

Well, there was that time a short little fellow named Napoleon Bonaparte conquered practically all of mainland Europe.

[SPOOFE]

What if I am really looking for information on French military victories?

Then don't press "I'm feeling lucky".

[Lobsang]

If you were really looking for information on FMVs then you could hit the 'search' button.


I suspect google's message was accidental and not meant to be funny - the reason I suspect this is Google probably has a database of words or phrases - it probably searched it's databases and found that there were far more occurences of "french military defeats" than "french military victories" so it suggested the user meant the former.

[Loopus]

It's not Google. The URL of that page is not part of google.com, and at the bottom of the page it says "This Parody is not sponsored or endorsed by Google."

I thought it was funny too. Old joke, but an original way of telling it.

[Major Kong]

It's not Google. The URL of that page is not part of google.com, and at the bottom of the page it says "This Parody is not sponsored or endorsed by Google."

Never mind the ravings of the idiot (me).

[Flamsterette_X]

Still pretty damn funny, though..

Relaxation, relief, and now amusement.. what shall the day bring me next?

F_X

[The Calculus of Logic]

Originally posted by The Physiognomist
Well, there was that time a short little fellow named Napoleon Bonaparte conquered practically all of mainland Europe.

Napoleon wasn't French, he was from Corsica. He also ended up losing all his gains within 10 years anyway. Thats like saying 'Well, there was that time a nutty fellow named Adolf Hitler conquered practically all of mainland Europe'. For a few years he did.

[DdDHellspawn]

I think that it's sfucking hilarious

Maybe that's why the french don't like the U.S. We had to save their lands for them. I'm not hating on the French at all, mind. I just think that it's funny that Europe in a whole on the most part criticizes the U.S. sticking our noses in other peoples business. Now they weren't complaining when we did that for WWI and WWII were they.

[OpalCat]

Originally posted by Major Kong
I would think it was funny too, if Google didn't claim to be the premier search engine on the web. What if I am really looking for information on French military victories? Google has no place making jokes at what may be a real search.

I seriously hope you are continuing the joke and you aren't really that stupid. On the off chance that you are serious, however:

the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button just bypasses the search results page and takes you to whatever site would have been the first result listed. If you really want to search for "french military victories" just search for it! http://tinyurl.com/g6ni

[Major Kong]

No, I am really that stupid. I never use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button and didn't understand what it did. Sorry.

[Major Kong]

Of course that is no excuse. I could have just looked at the address bar to see I was no longer in Google.

[jovan]

Originally posted by The Calculus of Logic
Napoleon wasn't French, he was from Corsica. He also ended up losing all his gains within 10 years anyway. Thats like saying 'Well, there was that time a nutty fellow named Adolf Hitler conquered practically all of mainland Europe'. For a few years he did.

Could we please not go there... again? I'm just saying this to spare Tamerlane another 1200-word post.

It seems, though, that there are a number of such "joke" "I'm feeling lucky" results. Try it with "weapons of mass destruction".

[Lobsang]

Don't beat yourself up about it Major Kong. I thought it was a genuine google page too.

[OpalCat]

The "weapons of mass destruction" one no longer works, as of earlier today. (It could come back, of course, search results are fluid things.) The link it went to prior was this: http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

[Nanoda]

Originally posted by DdDHellspawn
I think that it's sfucking hilarious

Maybe that's why the french don't like the U.S. We had to save their lands for them. I'm not hating on the French at all, mind. I just think that it's funny that Europe in a whole on the most part criticizes the U.S. sticking our noses in other peoples business. Now they weren't complaining when we did that for WWI and WWII were they.

I suppose you're not counting the time they saved your land for you?

[Airman Doors, USAF]

The time they "saved our land" for us?

Ironically enough, sir, they weren't acting out of any kindness or fondness. They were acting out of their own self interest in that matter.

They were, after all, no friend of the British.

So, compare that to now. They act out of their own self interest 200 years ago (and many times afterward, including the Iraq situation) and they are praised for it. We act out of our self interest now and we're vilified for it anytime we do it. Hmmm...just something to think about.

[Nanoda]

*sigh* I thought someone would say something like that. Look - all I feel is that practically everything that's been happening recently between France and the U.S., from the average citizen up to grown men supposedly mature enough to lead a country (Freedom fries? How disgustingly insulting can you get?) is moronic to being Kafkaesque. People who weren't even alive when Hitler was around are turning a heroic saga of determination and sacrifice against evil into a "you owe me now" type of favour. Can't anyone see how debasing that is???

I've seen you in some other threads ADUSAF, and I don't think you think that way, but the five hundredth time I've come across this type of thing I just got really annoyed, like Major Kong did, even if he was somewhat off track. Perhaps the whole shallow smugness I've seen made me want to be the same back for a change; I suppose that was somewhat low of me too. But I'd still kick the ass of any Canadian who says that England "owes us one" for D-day.

[Airman Doors, USAF]

I don't. I just like to keep things in the proper perspective, and I'm pretty blunt about it most of the time.

[furt]

I agree Nanoda ... but for some of us seeing for the first, and not the 500th time, it's laugh-out loud funny. Sorry.

[Nocturne]

The French saved us out of their own self-interest, and we saved them out of ours.

We were, after all, no friend of the Axis Powers.

I'm very tired of Americans slogging the French for the way they conduct their affairs. The French aren't RUDE; they are DIFFERENT.

And personally, I would prefer that my friends or allies or whatever would have the backbone to say to me, "I can't back you up on stances with which I do not agree." I don't like surrounding myself with yes-men.

[Fern Forest]

The first Google Bomb was very funny.

It's been a steep decline since then.

[Coldfire]

Originally posted by DdDHellspawn
Maybe that's why the french don't like the U.S. We had to save their lands for them. I'm not hating on the French at all, mind. I just think that it's funny that Europe in a whole on the most part criticizes the U.S. sticking our noses in other peoples business. Now they weren't complaining when we did that for WWI and WWII were they.

The fact that the majority of the civilised world is currently criticizing US foreign policy is not funny in the least. It means that perhaps GWB is doing something wrong.

As for WWII, while most (practically ALL) Europeans are eternally grateful for the American and Canadian liberators, it is a simplification to state that US troops just came over because they thought Hitler was being a meanie. In fact, had Pearl Harbor not been bombed, the US involvement in the liberation of Europe would have been vastly different, if not non-existant. I'm not glad PH was bombed, but I AM glad that US troops did land on our shores to rid Europe of the Nazis. I have eternal respect for those who died to preserve my freedom.

And I still reserve the right to criticize every single damn US administration if I think it's fucking up.

Just because the US and most of Europe are allies, just because the US played a major part in liberating us, doesn't mean we just have to blindly accept any US policy that GWB tries to cram down the collective international throat.

[Major Kong]

Can sone of the moderators please close this thread since my OP was in error?

Thank you.

[dantheman]

Did they really save the country? You have to have pitched three wars before a true save can be recorded, or enter a war with a casualty lead of fewer than three. The rules say so.