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"Miserable Failure"
Google ^ | 12/2/03 | Google

Posted on 12/02/2003 5:13:20 AM PST by Rebelbase

Google the term "miserable failure" and look at the second link.

Methinks there is a liberal activist in the White House IT department.


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Ok, Web detectives get started. Is it a liberal mole in the White House messing with the website or is it someone at Google?
1 posted on 12/02/2003 5:13:20 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Constitution Day; billbears; Phantom Lord; AppyPappy; Lazamataz
ping.
2 posted on 12/02/2003 5:15:29 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
Oh my goodness.
3 posted on 12/02/2003 5:18:24 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Rebelbase
I would think it is someone at Google. Neither 'miserable' nor 'failure' can be found on the official web page, nor in its source code.
4 posted on 12/02/2003 5:19:20 AM PST by Petronski (Living life in a minor key.)
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To: Rebelbase
That smells a bit fishy.

That particular query returns a government site outlining W's presidency.

Yeah, I'd say someone has tied some unkind keywords to that site...

5 posted on 12/02/2003 5:20:32 AM PST by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: Rebelbase
It's not in the source. Must be Google.
6 posted on 12/02/2003 5:20:42 AM PST by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Petronski
"nor in its source code."

Question: If its not in the source code then its not visible and won't show up in a search engine?
7 posted on 12/02/2003 5:21:31 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
You have to look at the cached version that Google has for the answer, and the answer is:

"These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: miserable failure"

And here's the page that's responsible:

http://www.blah3.com/graymatter/archives/00000654.html

8 posted on 12/02/2003 5:21:56 AM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: Petronski
I think the domain amiserablefailure.com is causing the Google misstep. Not sure how they did it, but it looks intentional.
9 posted on 12/02/2003 5:23:45 AM PST by palmer (They've reinserted my posting tube)
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To: general_re
You're right, I was wrong.
10 posted on 12/02/2003 5:24:55 AM PST by palmer (They've reinserted my posting tube)
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To: Rebelbase
Only if Google attaches those particular key words to the site outside of the source, say internally at Google.

Might be worth a message to Google:

search-quality@google.com

 

11 posted on 12/02/2003 5:24:56 AM PST by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: Petronski; Damocles; AppyPappy
It's somebody gaming the Google ranking system. See my previous post.
12 posted on 12/02/2003 5:25:26 AM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: general_re
So how did you find the original site?
13 posted on 12/02/2003 5:25:59 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: general_re
Excellent find.
14 posted on 12/02/2003 5:27:00 AM PST by Petronski (Living life in a minor key.)
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To: general_re
Nice catch...
15 posted on 12/02/2003 5:28:12 AM PST by Damocles (sword of...)
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To: general_re
you da man, general!
16 posted on 12/02/2003 5:29:31 AM PST by hellinahandcart
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To: Rebelbase
That blog page is the fourth link that shows up if you search for "miserable failure". Lots of people are linking to it, which makes it show up among the first results returned - the number of links pointing to your page from other pages is one of the ways Google ranks hits on your searches, and that feature is exactly what they're exploiting in order to tie "miserable failure" to GWB. They get a bunch of people to create links called "miserable failure" that point to this GWB page, and bingo - "miserable failure" now returns the GWB bio page when you search for it on Google. Eventually, if they can garner enough people doing it, "miserable failure" will return the GWB page as the first result.
17 posted on 12/02/2003 5:30:53 AM PST by general_re (Knife goes in, guts come out! That's what Osaka Food Concern is all about!)
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To: general_re
Thanks
18 posted on 12/02/2003 5:33:47 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase
It's not someone at google, it's someone who understands google.

Here's your explanation. If you look at the source code for that article in the header before the html body begins you will find the meta tags:

"keywords" content="jack beatty, bush, miserable failure, re-election, swing voters, Atlantic Unbound, Atlantic Monthly"

meta name="description" content="Jack Beatty on why Bush is a miserable failure"

The Website, The Atlantic Online is considered relevent by google's bots. The bots crawl that sight on a regular basis. Some of the things the bots look for are whether the search term appears in the meta tags of the code and if those words then appear in the document's body. If so, it considers it relevent to the search.

I've scored quite a few number one hits on google for different websites. It's not that hard if you know how to set the web pages up.

In addition, if a lot of other sites are linking to that particular article, it's relevence gets raised a great deal as well.

19 posted on 12/02/2003 5:34:10 AM PST by Prodigal Son
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To: general_re
Using your logic we should be able to get Hillary Clinton's bio page to come up as "beast" & "witch" "anti-Christ" to name a few
20 posted on 12/02/2003 5:34:23 AM PST by boxerblues (If you can read this.. Thank a Teacher..If you can read this in English ..Thank a US Soldier)
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