fun with google :D

[Sava]

Originally posted by The diplomat


That't it then. Google must be a radical leftist commie website!

heh, I was waiting for this...

although, it's not as funny as if you were serious

[Dr Strangelove]

I can't wait until Homeland Security gets wind of this. There will be a price to pay. I predict nothing less than internment at Gitmo.

[Chemical Ollie]

It's funny that almost all of the hits on the first page is about the same person.

[Az]

http://www.amon-hen.com/misc/mf.html

the guys behind this.

[Q Classic]

why didn't you just link to it like so?

[Thue]

Now all the people like us linking to it will only make it more certain that Bush will remain at #1 for "miserable faliure". Positive feedback effect with google .

(because we increase the pagerank rating of the sites which make the miserable faliure links)

[Q Classic]

i see why. the damned ad that inserts itself kills the link. oy.

[chequita guevara]

I can't wait for the mainstream media to pick this up.

[Az]

Originally posted by Q Cubed
i see why. the damned ad that inserts itself kills the link. oy.

yes, this new ad is the devil.

I'd like to have a look at apolyton's financial balance, btw.

[Sava]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I can't wait for the mainstream media to pick this up.

yeah, in between Thanksgiving photo ops and lauding bush for "victory" over Medicare? right?

the "liberal" media won't dare give publicity to a negative Bush story...

[Locutus]

Nice

More fun with Google (this is an old one though): searching for Weapons of Mass Destruction.

[Asmodean]

It's really not that strange at all. What happens is that google searches for the words that appear in the search. It then analyzes the search results and tries to find other sites that are relevant, but not nescesarily containing the searched for key words.

Finally it sorts all results by relevance, placing the white house website at the top because what web-site could be more relevant to Gearge W. Bush.

At least this is my guess.

Asmodean

[civman2000]

If you look at the next few pages it seems there has been an effort to rplace Bush with Gephardt...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
I can't wait for the mainstream media to pick this up.

They have:

Miserable Failure? Google Trick Says It's Bush

By Richard J. Dalton Jr
Staff Writer

December 6, 2003

A search for the phrase "miserable failure" on the popular search engine Google brings up the biography of George W. Bush on the official White House Web site, in one of the more prominent search-engine manipulations with political overtones.

The phrase appears nowhere in the bio. But computer users rigged the search engine results by posting the phrase on Web pages and linking it to the Bush bio, in a technique called Google bombing.

"I thought it was absolutely one of the funniest ideas I've ever heard," said Don Waller, owner of Don Waller Interactive, a Web design company in Islip Terrace and a blogger who joined the prank in late October. "I just decided to jump in with it."

"This is just one of those spontaneous things that a blogger will post something and other bloggers will say, 'This is a great idea.'"

Search engines work much like an index in the back of a book, allowing people to look up words and directing them to the page in which the words appear. The search engines scour Web pages to create the index. In this case, computer users wrote links labeled "miserable failure." When users click on the link, it brings them to the official Bush bio.

When Google software creates its index, it notices the association between the phrase "miserable failure" and the Bush bio. So a search for the phrase brings up the bio.

White House spokesman Ken Lisaius had no comment. Google did not return phone calls.

Google bombings are created by people who run Web sites and Web logs, or blogs, which allow people to easily post information about particular topics. One person posts an idea for a bombing online, then it spreads like, you might say, Webfire.

The latest Google bombing appears to have spread within a matter of weeks.

It apparently doesn't take much for Google to make the association. At least 826 pages link to the Bush bio but just 32 of those pages include the phrase "miserable failure," according to a Google search.

In previous pranks, tricksters have rigged Google to bring up spoof pages. For instance, after France refused to join the coalition forces fighting Iraq, a Google search for "French military victories" brought up a spoof page that said no documents were found and asked, "Did you mean 'french military defeats.'"
Copyright © 2003, Newsday, Inc.

http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog1206,0,2339508.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

A quick check of Google News reveals that its being covered as far away as India, where a story about it appeared in the Calcutta Time.

[axi]

Hilarious!!!