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Google the word "failure"
Posted on 09/26/2005 7:37:04 AM PDT by ElRushbo
has anyone seen this before? How does this happen?
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:37:05 AM PDT
by
ElRushbo
To: ElRushbo
Only those who have read the 5000 previous posts on this subject.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:37:44 AM PDT
by
MineralMan
(godless atheist)
To: ElRushbo
There's a guy on TV.
Right now!
Talking!
Anyone see this????
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT
by
BibChr
("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
To: ElRushbo
To: MineralMan
ohh Just heard about it now... go ahead delete the thread
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:38:31 AM PDT
by
ElRushbo
(Harley Riders against Elton John)
To: ElRushbo
Google the word "waffles".
To: ElRushbo
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:00 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: BulletBobCo
maybe we should do one for rapist
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:05 AM PDT
by
jern
To: ElRushbo
Do a thread search. I think it's explained pretty well on some.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:12 AM PDT
by
pa mom
To: ElRushbo
Liberals manipulating the web is how it happens.
So they are all congratulating themselves over this stunning political act. Meanwhile, we've got Dan Rather's scalp.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:22 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: BibChr
Your from China? I know a guy from China!
You may know him, he is short, brown straight hair. I think his name is Ling or Ping or something like that.
Does that sound familiar? Do you know each other?
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:37 AM PDT
by
keithtoo
(Howard Dean is a Rove plant, Rove is a NeoCon plant, NeoCons are Trilateralist plants....)
To: ElRushbo
Old news. It's called a "google bomb": people create tons of links to a particular page, for example by putting links in blog comments all over the blogosphere. That raises the "page rank", until the target page becomes the #1 hit. The same trick was used for "
french military victories".
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:38 AM PDT
by
Shalom Israel
(Pray for the peace of Jerusalem.)
To: ElRushbo
It's called Google Bombing and it has been going on for a while. Some schmuck makes a website that redirects your query to some other page. It is actually becoming pretty common, though Google refuses to stop it. They say they are just a window on the Internet and they are more or less right. It isn't their fault, but they will nix really obnoxious stuff.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:39:52 AM PDT
by
Danae
( Anál nathrach, orth' bháis's bethad, do chél dénmha)
To: BulletBobCo
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:40:11 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(O beautiful for patriot dream - that sees beyond the years)
To: ElRushbo
The word "failure" doesn't even appear in that bio of GW Bush. The question is not "why does this happen," but rather what is Google doing about this?
To: BulletBobCo
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:40:44 AM PDT
by
E Rocc
(Anyone who thinks Bush-bashing is banned from FR has never read a Middle East thread.)
To: ElRushbo
Hey, there's an awesome email I just got titled "I am a BAD American!" Did you get it too? Post that!
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:41:26 AM PDT
by
TheBigB
(I will punch the next person who confuses "you're" and "your". Seriously. Don't test me.)
To: ElRushbo
Google's explanation:
Googlebombing 'failure'
9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM
Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products
If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White Houses official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.
Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.
To: ElRushbo
How does this happen? Usually it gets bumped to the to by people posting vanity threads about it...
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:42:34 AM PDT
by
Corin Stormhands
(You are stuck on stupid, I’m not going to answer that question ~ General Honore)
To: ElRushbo
Well, it was gratifying to see that Michael Moore came up as number 3 on the list.
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posted on
09/26/2005 7:42:50 AM PDT
by
Rocky
(Air America: Robbing the poor to feed the Left)
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