Internet Myths

Another bubble burst.
Lots of people, especially Americans, but most recently a friend of mine, have been taking great pleasure in passing it around that if you type in "French military victories", Google returns 'did you mean French military defeats?'

This isn't strictly true. Some clown has got his own webpage (not a actual Google 'not found' result page) to the top of the list for that search, so that that's what you get if you hit "I'm feeling lucky"*. So there you go.


* Actually, I use Google in Latin, so my button says "Favente Fortuna!" But that's largely irrelevant.