The GMC Robot ad was my favorite Super Bowl XLI commercial. What can I say? I like Robots.
By the way, it was hard finding a list of the Super Bowl commercials online. I remember a link being mentioned on TV, but I could remember the URL. So I tried searching for "Super Bowl commercials" on Google, however, all the top links were for previous Super Bowl events. The official Super Bowl site gets returned too, but again, after a quick scan I didn't see a link to the commercials. I presume I missed it.
I finally turned to searching the blogs (using blogsearch.google.com) and sure enough in a few minutes I had a link to a partial list of ads on videos.google.com and a more complete list at AOL. I'm fairly sure this isn't the link promoted on CBS, which is maybe a lesson to the folks wanting to get their URL out. (I also checked news.google.com, however, for the handful of online articles I read, no one appeared to provide the link to the commercials themselves. They just talked about the commercials.)
This all illustrates how difficult it can be to find current information online. The "best" links are often based on criteria built up over time, which is something that a breaking event doesn't have in its favor. Of course, ask a person for a link of Super Bowl ads this morning and they'd know exactly what you are looking for. They aren't going to be handing me a link to 2004 ads--sorry Google, wrong answer.
Fortunately searching blogs got me around this predicament. It's a trick I often use when looking for breaking "news." It worked this time, however, it sure would be nice if there was a search engine that was biased towards new information on the Net.


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