[davidw]

Heh, that was the first thing I tried too. It works.

[pdpi]

Well, it kind of works. Was a bit disappointed that it blinked.

[Stratoscope]

You may have typed <marquee> into the search box you got to from the <blink> tag. Try it by itself:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%3Cmarquee%3E&safe=off