Google-Bombing Moves From Bush to Obama (Now Obama is miserable failure)

Wall Street Journal ^ | 1/25/09 | Marisa Taylor

[Evil Slayer]

Newly minted President Barack Obama has enough problems to tackle without a Google bomb getting thrown into the mix.

The new result for Googling “failure” In 2003, haters of President George W. Bush with a mean streak and tech savvy managed to Google-bomb him as a “miserable failure” — meaning that a rash of users linked Bush’s name to the words “miserable failure” so that if the term was Googled, Web sites referencing him would show up higher in the search.

Even though Google eventually diffused the phenomenon in 2007 by improving the link structure surrounding the term, now Obama may be dealing with the aftermath.

According to a Search Engine Land article, Obama is inheriting all the old links from Bush’s biography to the term “miserable failure” because the link to his biography was swapped for Bush’s on the White House site on Inauguration Day. As a result, a search for “miserable failure” on Yahoo will likely yield Obama’s biography, and on Google, a search for “failure” will do the same.

Danny Sullivan, editor of Search Engine Land, observes that Bush’s bio should be redirected to a page on whitehouse.gov about the history of U.S. presidents, that the link to the current president’s biography should be killed and the biography placed elsewhere since the current Google-bomb association is still showing up.

[Eye of Unk]

Some entrepreneur could make a ton of cash by updating the mad Islamics to the new version poster of Obama the apostate.

[Gaffer]

Of course, Google will make every attempt to clear up this travesty poste haste! We can’t have that, can we?

[Vaduz]

Obama’s biography, and on Google, a search for “failure” They have that right.

[Jeff Gordon]

Both Yahoo and Google have moved quickly bring back normality. Searching “miserable failure” on Yahoo once again brings up the BDS stuff.

[Waco]

How much money does Google have to make before they’re judged a complete failure. (Eat yer heart out, GM, Ford.)

[WaterBoard]

Just googled ‘miserable failure’ and it no longer points to his Obami’s profile just stories about google bombing. Didn’t take long, did it kids?

[Bon mots]

For any of you who want to help google bomb, try this:

<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president_obama/" title="clueless fool">clueless fool</a>

Here's what it will look like:
clueless fool

Put that in your FR profile, and put them all over the web. When you go to a blog and make a post write your name as "clueless fool" and put the link to your homepage as:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president_obama/clueless fool

[Yo-Yo]

The White House simply changed the URL of Zero's biography, breaking the miserable failure links.

[Bon mots]

Here's another GoogleBomb we should do:

<a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="fat pig">fat pig</a>

Copy and paste the above text wherever you can - start with your FR Profile page and keep going. :)

Here's what it will look like:
fat pig

Put that in your FR profile, and put them all over the web. When you go to a blog and make a post write your name as "Fat Pig" and put the link to your homepage as:

Name:	fat pig
Website:	http://www.michaelmoore.com/

[svxdave]

For my part, I am trying not to use Google any more. Google’s executives and employees overwhelmingly supported Obama, contributing more than all but three companies or individuals. Just last October, the Justice Department was closing in on Google for being a Web-search monopolist. That investigation seems to be going away now.

I have book marked Yahoo and Cuil for all of my searches.

[svxdave]

I just tried that “Fat Big” link and was disgusted by the end result, Michael Moore’s website. The pollution from that link frightened me.

[Bon mots]

I just tried that “Fat Big” link and was disgusted by the end result, Michael Moore’s website. The pollution from that link frightened me.

That was put there to help people put up a google bomb, so that whenever someone enters the words "fat pig" into google, the first result will be Michael Moore's website.

The classic Google-bomb is this one:
French military victories

That's the classic!
Try it yourself... Google "French Military Victories". :)

[Bon mots]

I have book marked Yahoo and Cuil for all of my searches.

There is also AllTheWeb
I have found that their image search works better than Google's does.

Not to mention all the other search engines you can use as listed here:
The Search Engine List