I wonder if this was, in fact, an ad. "By the way, it's Groundhog day today" or "By the way, [random interesting fact about the current date]" seems more like

I wonder if this was, in fact, an ad. "By the way, it's Groundhog day today" or "By the way, [random interesting fact about the current date]" seems more like an inprovement. I suspect that Google just somehow entangled 2017-03-18 with that movie release date, and people started to wonder if Gogole was somehow paid to do that.