From the Fun With Internet Serendipity file …

When I Googled “Independence Day” it wasn’t much of a surprise that the movie that made Will Smith a big-screen superstar came up number one in the organic results.

It was kind of nice to see the first page of search results showing this page. It’s mainly a bunch of links to complete versions of historic documents, from the Magna Carta to the Declaration of Independence to the Constitution. The Founding Fathers, being Web newbies, would probably enjoy the spinning .gifs, though I wonder what they would think of the “fart button” banner ad.

As for the Google ads: How does “Look Sexy Naked” fit in with the rest? Does “rare Chinese slimming tea” have something to do with why Declaration author Thomas Jefferson was known as “the man of the people”? And why, when I Google “Chinese slimming tea,” do I not see an ad for patriotic collectibles?

Happy Fourth!

This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 4th, 2006 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, This 'n' That.