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Posted: 10/5/2005 10:17:18 PM EDT

Apparently I'm a dipshit because I've never heard of googlebombing....

sorry if this is a dupe, but I just discovered this

go to www.google.com

type in "failure" without the qoutes and hit the I'm feeling lucky button...

Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View CA 94043
phone: (650) 253-0000
fax: (650) 253-0001

still looking for an email address...

EPOCH

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:18:14 PM EDT

[#1]

Yea, no suprise here. Google is a norcal company.

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:18:44 PM EDT

[#2]

Welcome to about 2 years ago, dipshit.

Put in Miserable Failure and you get the exact same thing.

The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words.

Thus, members of an online community can affect the results of Google searches - called "Google bombing" - by linking their sites to a chosen one.

Google doesn't have control over what the results come up as. If a bunch of people link "Miserable Failure" to GWB's biography, Google is going to rank it as the best pick because of it having the most links to that site.

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:18:56 PM EDT

[#3]

This dates back before the 2004 elections.

I would say as far back as 2002 or earlier.

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:19:31 PM EDT

[#4]

Fuck em.

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:23:12 PM EDT

[#5]

I read somewhere on the interweb that a few people can manipulate search results by doing something called "google bombing". I don't know what that is because my internet is for shopping for military gear and looking at porn only, but apparently the Bush-failure thing is the result of a google bomb.

I guess I should have read the thread before posting. Disregard

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:24:37 PM EDT

[#6]

Its not google doing it. It is a bunch of leftist wackos that put the text into their web pages in such a way that the words get cached and noted so it comes up in a search. Hence the term google-bombing. They are bombing the search engine with key words that they want to relate to something - in this case to say that Pres. Bush is a failure.

It is important to understand that it is not google saying bush is a failure

Posted: 10/5/2005 10:26:24 PM EDT

[#7]

Google can FOAD. After those bastards wrote back to me concerning my question "why no decorative artwork for Memorial Day?" .. rude, lies, etc.... I haven't used those fucktards site since!

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