Yes, Chris, that is SO brilliant. Musta taken a genius from Moveon.org all of ten minutes to set it up. Has anybody linked “George McGovern” to “Howard Dean” yet?
Fighting the war for borders, language and culture and proud of it.
The Weekender
A cheap shot against the presidency.
Actually, Weeks, I don’t think you fully understand how the “I’m feeling lucky” button works. It only returns the most popular result, and takes you there. That site happens to be the most popular for the words “miserable failure”.
You can type anything and it will take you directly to the most popular result.
In this case, Rep. Richard Gephardt has taken to calling the President a “miserable failure” lately in speeches, and that’s obviously the most popular result. Google.com or MoveOn.org have nothing to do with the linkage. It’s simply the most popular result at the time.
So are the words “miserable failure” found in the page? What makes that a result for the search? If Gephardt using the phrase in his speeches was the reason, who doesn’t it link to a Gephardt speech?
Because, Walden, when people run a regular search (by clicking the other button, not the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button), that site is the most popular one statistically for whatever word or phrase you typed in. That’s how it works.
A Gephardt site isn’t linked to the words “miserable failure” because it’s not the most popular at the time you run the search. (MoveOn.org has nothing to do with it, Google has had this feature as long as I can remember.)
Play around, type in any word or phrase, and a regular search will return every result, while “I’m Feeling Lucky” will only return the most popular. That’s how it works.
“tinwhistle” returns this site as the most popular result. 
Actually, the way I described it is true, but there’s more to it in this case:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm
But that makes no sense. How does a regular search for “miserable failure” lead to that site? The search term “miserable failure” is not found in the White House web page, so there is no connection to be made, to the search engine, of the terms. If the search terms were “miserable failure” +“george w bush” one might expect to be linked to a page with both phrases, but there is no such connection in a search for nothing more than “miserable failure.”
Well, I tried to explain it best I could. Obviously that didn’t work. 
A BBC report explaining how this little prank was pulled off: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm
The way it works still holds true.
P.S. Read 4 posts up. 
Yeah, I see that… heh.
Hell ya, but a fun one! 
I always thought it was strange that environmental issues could be considered to be left or right wing as it concerns everybody, no matter how you cast your vote.
Both President Bush and President Putin turned down the Kyoto agreement even though the logic deduction leading up to their decisions differs.
Global warming and melting of the polar ice might lead to that large parts of the tundra in Siberia could be used for farm land which could be considered a good thing for national economics in the short term (politicians don’t understand the expression “long term”). As for Bush, who knows what he was thinking?
USA, has the largest emissions of polluted gases in the world. Bushs voters are the ones that actually will suffer from the failures of reducing pollution and stop the global warming.
Now when the Kyoto agreement is dead, a new American initiative has been launched to form an international framework, to fight pollution and global warming, together with the European commission. This initiative does not come from the White house, instead it is the US industry that is the main player. They seem to be a lot more concerned about the environment and the health of future consumers than the Bush administration.
That’s a bit odd isn’t it?
Increased life expectancy actually adds to our environmental problems. More people will result in more pollution if we don’t consider to change our lifestyles.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the anti-US paramilitary groups in Iraq, uses the exact same phrase (or, just ad religion).
I didn’t start this thread, it was Jerry 
/MarcusR
Increased life expectancy actually adds to our environmental problems. More people will result in more pollution if we don’t consider to change our lifestyles.
As the number of old farts in the world’s population increases, the volume of methane in the atmosphere is bound to increase.
Roger!
You hit the spot.
Everything can be blamed on the Heinz Company.
If we just put a ban on all their bean products the world would be a much safer (and pleasant) place.
Cheers!
/MarcusR
For another cheap shot, type in “French military victories” and hit I’m Feeling Lucky.
You didn’t hear it from me, though.
Type in “musical baked beans” on Google and hit I’m Feeling Lucky, and read a story that Walden sent in to Mrs. Crocker.
You’re welcome.
For the administration’s position on global warming,
www.epa.gov/globalwarming or do a search on
EPA Global warming. According to the administration
global warming is real, the USA is contributing significantly
to the problem, and is implementing a strategy
(domestically and internationally) to deal with it.
Ain’t that more like it.