Posted on 10/26/2005 12:56:51 PM PDT by celmak
Someone just sent me an e-mail stating that when I put "failure" in Google's search and hit "I feel lucky" up pops up Our Pres. and his web sight. Any body have a Joke, web site, or any other way I can retaliate (with LOVE)?
google bomb
google it.
thread will get pulled shortly i am sure
bump
Go to the main google page and they "French Military Victories" (in quotes). Then hit I'm feeling lucky.
Same with "miserable failure"
This news is so 2001.
That's the best :)
It just happened to be there as part of the search for the word. I do not think it was intentional IMHO.
Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.
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 House’s 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.
it's also far more innovative than the bush one.
Why would they pull it?
"Go to the main google page and they "French Military Victories" (in quotes). Then hit I'm feeling lucky."
No results at all. Is that it?
Cause it is a very lame thread. This same thing has been posted on FR 100's of times in the past.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp
No :) read the page, esp the "Did you mean..." part. Then click on that.
Actually you should click the resulting page suggesting what you may have wanted to search for....
"Waffles" used to lead to the Kerry campaign site. It might still. I don't know.
someone needs to post that "AWWW, NOT THIS SH*T AGAIN" photo.
No, read what it says.:)
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