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Go to http://www.google.com and enter:

weapons of mass destruction

in the search box and hit the I'm feeling lucky button. :D
 
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LOL that's sooooo funny!
 
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Google gag becomes big hit

LONDON, England (Reuters) -- A Web site lampooning the United States' inability to locate weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has become one of the biggest hits on the Internet.

The site, which is designed to look like a genuine error message -- replete with "bomb" icon -- is the top result when "weapons of mass destruction" is entered into one of the Web's top search engines, Google.com.

And despite being five months old -- a real veteran by Internet standards, the site is more popular than ever and is attracting over a million hits a week.

Experiencing difficulties
Linking to the page from Google yields the message "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed," and suggests that the country might be experiencing technical difficulties.

Because it looks like an authentic error message, many Internet users were under the impression Google had been hacked.

But despite its alarming appearance, the page is a harmless, regular site, authored by one Anthony Cox, a 34-year-old pharmacist from Birmingham, England.

"It started off as a private joke for a few friends," Cox said. "Then it got passed on. People e-mailed it around and it ended up a few mailing lists. It went off and created its own life."

Meant to spark debate
Cox said he created the site in February before the Iraq war when the debate about alleged Iraqi weapons of mass destruction first arose. With the war over and such weapons as elusive as ever, Cox's site has enjoyed new-found popularity.

He said the site clocked more than a million visits this week, more than in the past three months combined.

Cox, who said he was not opposed to the U.S.-led war on Iraq, included several links in his message. "Click the bomb button if you are Donald Rumsfeld," read one.

Doing so leads to a page on Internet book, music and video seller Amazon.co.uk offering a DVD version of the classic 1963 anti-war film "Doctor Strangelove."
 
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