Due to just some plain sillyness, I did a search for "THE" using Google. Why anyone would search for something like that is quite beyond me, but I try to maintain my sanity with this excuse: I wanted to search for a word in the English language that is guaranteed to get a lot of hits - got 9.5 billion hits for the word.

However, whether or not Kobus is sane is not the reason for this post. Go ahead, do the search yourself. My results indicated that The Onion was on the top of the list for a Google search for the word "THE". Some others indicated that they saw The Onion as the third result, which is still impressive. A search just before I started to write this page indicated again that The Onion was first in the list for me (see screenshot in attachment).

Big deal, but, did you notice how the listing for The Onion is even higher up than The White House and higher than The Economist?

Get to the point, you say? Okay. The Onion uses Drupal. Whether this indicates Drupal's search engine friendliness or their hard work, or a combination of the two, I don't know, but simply knowing that such a popular site is using Drupal is quite heart warming!

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