# Google's subtle political rebellion

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 7, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573 "2003-12-07T17:50:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/1 "2003-12-07T17:50:05Z")

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Go to [google.com](http://google.com), enter “miserable failure” in your search and hit the “I’m feeling lucky” button (which takes you to the top match automatically).

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**Author:** ![DaisyFace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@DaisyFace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaisyFace)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/2 "2003-12-07T18:04:29Z")

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Ummm…yeah. Wow.

::blink blink::

Makes me wonder what the other matches are?

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**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/3 "2003-12-07T18:05:17Z")

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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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227470&highlight=miserable+failure)

and

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227810](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=227810)

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**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/4 "2003-12-07T21:06:10Z")

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Woops, sorry. Heard it from someone, not [fark.com](http://fark.com).

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**Author:** ![Dutch\_George](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85f322/32.png) [@Dutch\_George](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dutch_George)\
**Post date:** [December 7, 2003, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/5 "2003-12-07T21:16:39Z")

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The following Googlebombs are also well-known:

“Weapons of mass destruction”

and

“French military victories”

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**Author:** ![Gmork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f19dbf/32.png) [@Gmork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gmork)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/6 "2003-12-08T00:10:43Z")

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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!

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**Author:** ![Gadfly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/aeb1de/32.png) [@Gadfly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gadfly)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/7 "2003-12-08T02:04:44Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Macrophage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/87869e/32.png) [@Macrophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Macrophage)\
**Post date:** [December 8, 2003, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/googles-subtle-political-rebellion/217573/8 "2003-12-08T05:59:42Z")

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Another reason to just plain love google.