The technology behind Google's great results

http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

hehehe thats classic

They certainly do have a sense of humour at Google.

"Google's pigeon-driven methods make tampering with our results extremely difficult. While some unscrupulous websites have tried to boost their ranking by including images on their pages of bread crumbs, bird seed and parrots posing seductively in resplendent plumage"

awww man now i want an army of killer pigeons

that's gold.

i hope their Gmail is not a prank.