Searching for "Comic Sans MS" has the same effect.

But it isn't nearly so funny as Googling Helvetica. Most Helvetica-lovers are Comic Sans haters...

I don't get it. What is this supposed to do? Is it supposed to style the page with the Helvetica font?

If this is the joke, I guess it doesn't work for me since this font is not available on my machine (using Ubuntu). Or is it something else I'm missing?

Edit: seems like I wasn't far from the truth: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s_hoaxes#Search http://www.google.com/landing/csfe/

This reminded me of the recently launched http://whichfontshouldiuse.com/ ;)