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So the successful google bombing of President Bush will stand while they may intervene in the attempted google bombing of the Kerry campaign with the word "waffles"? It finally works but I could easily see them removing it.

Unless they do remove it, I'm not sure what your point is here. The Kerry For President site is the #1 result for "waffles" right now. If it were to be removed, it might be because the legitimate owner of waffles.com complains. But on the other hand, the "legitimate" site is only the third-most-popular "waffles" site anyway, so they'd probably have less of a case.

Then again the moderators at news.google.com seriously believe that Democratic Underground is a "news" site and not a place where racist, seditious ranting occurs. They have told me that true hate literature will not be tolerated. I've given them examples in the past but I always hear that it is "just a difference of opinion". Yeah.

They don't link to DU threads, just DU articles. FR doesn't have an articles section. I don't know why they don't link to FRN articles, but they certainly cover a whole host of conservative opinion sites.

The point was about "waffles" being a name for a product (even if there were no "waffles.com", people still buy/sell/look for recipes for waffles. A link to the Kerry Campaign website is a false lead even if the word fits). If Google is going to let some google bombs stand and possibly remove others, it is a practice that should actively be discouraged in ALL cases.

I've pointed out vile hate in DU's "opinions" section (that was where I first noticed news.google.com cited DU as "news"). Some of the other examples I later offered to them were from the forums. The location of the comments didn't seem to matter too much to the moderator and they did seem somewhat concerned by some of the comments (like a death threat made against American troops) but DU pulled that thread after it made the wire services.

I tell them what DU represents but they choose to pull the wool over their eyes.

I do not write any opinion pieces for FR but I read some of the opinion pieces on FR. Reportedly some on FR have unsuccessfully tried to get their work included in "news.google.com".