fascinating msn beta search result

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Via a student, this extremely entertaining query on the MSN Search beta.

(Thanks, Brian!)

(Update: More on this from Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineWatch...)

(One more update: John Battelle comments, as well. Now that my initial fit of giggles has subsided, I have to say that I share some of John's concerns. I believe that the 1999 Google version of this was a genuine algorithmic result, based on the often-negative comments that people post online about Microsoft. But I find it hard to believe that this turnabout version is also a legitimate algorithmic result. And while it's funny at first glance, it does lead to deeper questions about the integrity of the results.)

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Also amusing, my fake news story about the original happening is the #3 result!

For awhile, that fake news article was the #1 result for "more evil than Satan himself" on Google, as documented in this follow-up article :)

http://www.bedope.com/stories/0125.html

- mikepop

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