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These sites (both WMD and French Military Victories) are neither bugs, hacks, nor Easter Eggs.

What they are are clevery-made spoof pages, photoshopped or HTML'ed to look like search pages.

The reason they come up on the "feeling lucky" button (which automatically takes you to the top-ranked page) is that the most popular and well-made spoofs have high google ranks.

In addition, people manipulate the google ranks of pages by getting others to link to them. This prank was first done by someone who got his friend's web page to be the number one hit for the phrase "talentless hack".

The details of these tricks have been reported online inmany places. See, e.g., :

http://slate.msn.com/id/2063699/
http://www.google-watch.org/gaming.html

Edit: Ficks Speling.
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