Facebook Weirdness: Nobel Peace Prize Dept. 0
I am a member of this group on Facebook:
(Aside: And I do support the prize. Even though I think it was premature, as I said, it would be incredibly churlish not to support the receipt of such an honor by one of one’s fellow countrymen–but we have no shortage of incredible churls. And, despite the gnashing of churlish teeth, a Nobel Prize is not the type of thing that one turns down.)
The page was created by a fellow from Philly whom I know from DL.
Here’s what’s freaky:
When I Google “We Support President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize,” the link that comes up, awash in all the news links, is the URL for the Canadian Facebook page in French; the page itself is not translated, but the American English headers are replaced with French ones.
Here’s the link again:
http://www.fr.facebook.ca/group.php?gid=180691720019&ref=share
(Aside: Microsoft’s Bing! couldn’t even find that.)
The American English page does not show seem to appear in the first three pages or so of the Google results. Does this mean more French-Canadians than others are searching for the topic?
Inquiring minds want to know.
