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December 06, 2003

Bush is #1 "miserable failure" says Google

This is pretty remarkable...

You may have heard already, but if you haven't, check out the search results on Google for the phrase "miserable failure".

It probably won't last much longer, but right now, the #1 result is the biography page of George W. Bush.

--Instant Update: I just read a Newsday article that said it's an instance of "Google bombing", where a bunch of people linked that term to the bio page, to boost its listing. Pretty clever -- and now it will likely get Internet-wide exposure. Hard to say what the political ramifications of it will be.

Here's an archived copy of the Google page, since the original is going to change eventually.

I'm wondering if Google will penalize the pranksters or not. I pondered the idea of hopping on the bandwagon (I even had the link made), but I decided that Google treats this site too well for me to join in. It's not worth risking a demotion when Google probably provides 40% or more of my traffic.

Further Update: I see that Democrat Dick Gephardt has a site called amiserablefailure.com, which features the phrase. Is this Gephardt trying to out-'Net Howard Dean? Hmm...

Posted by Lance Brown at December 6, 2003 01:40 AM | TrackBack

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