Go to google.com, enter “miserable failure” in your search and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button (which takes you to the top match automatically).
Ummm…yeah. Wow.
::blink blink::
Makes me wonder what the other matches are?
and now we have a hat trick of similarities from a fark article
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227470&highlight=miserable+failure
and
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227810
Woops, sorry. Heard it from someone, not fark.com.
The following Googlebombs are also well-known:
“Weapons of mass destruction”
and
“French military victories”
Are there any others besides these three?
I knew the WMDs one. And I’d read about the ‘failure’ online before. The French one is new to me though!
Player 1: The Apple II, The Abacus, The George Bush Googlebombing thread, and Doom.
Player 2: Uhh… Completely obsolete articles that have already had their glory days!
Ding ding ding. I win a new car.
Another reason to just plain love google.