Google Showing Their True Political Colors? (Search for miserable failure shows Whitehouse.gov)

Google ^ | Dec 3, 2003

[jern]

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=miserable+failure

As you can see google has let their algorithms in on this joke. What is happening is that a lot of bloggers link to the whithouse site with the anchor/link text of "miserable failure". This is why the whitehouse.gov comes up first.

A lot of times when their results serve up something that is being manipulated they will kick it out of their inded. They have known this for weeks, but will not take action.

help@google.com

[clintonh8r]

The Internuts' loyalty is to their inventor, Alice Gwhore.

[Fpimentel]

Document count: failure (584) miserable (11) miserable failure (2)

I don't see what the problem is? Whitehouse.gov uses those same words.

[diotima]

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[montag813]

I just tried it myself. Enter "miserable failure" in Google and get the following official listing:

"Biography of President George W. Bush"

From the White House website. Nearly every other listing is related to Bush as well. Disgraceful and disgusting. Tell all your friends to contact Google at once!

[Rebelbase]

Check out the comments here.

[sigSEGV]

Cmon people. This is how the Google algorithm works. If someone makes a link like:

Blind Pandas with red hair

then Google will pick up that link and associate its content using the link text. The fact is, people have linked to that page using "miserable failure" as the link text.

[Starter]

Hold on for a sec before the boycott. This one isn't Google's fault. Head over to here:

http://www.amon-hen.com/misc/mf.html

A quote from the above page:
"From this day forth, I will refer to George W. Bush as a Miserable Failure at least once a day. Why, you ask? Well, someone came up with this great idea to link George W. Bush and Miserable Failure in popular search engines. If you have a blog or web site, help raise the link between George W. Bush and the phrase 'miserable failure' by copying this link and placing somewhere on your site or blog.

Thank you very much for your participation."

So, thanks to certain left wing bloggers, the bots at Google constanly see the phrases linked. So, it's a concious decision from Google doing this, it's just the fault of the searching program. (Which is run by pigeons, IIRC. See
http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html
for details.)

[Starter]

Argh. That should read "So, it's *not* a concious decision from Google doing this, it's just the fault of the searching program."

[liberty or death]

Well then how come when I use
www.sexualpervertpredatorpieceofsh!t.com I dont get a link to Bill Clinton.

[MarkeyD]

Time to fight fire with fire then!

[thepatriot1]

Just uninstalled the google toolbar and will be using yahoo for further searches. Let em what you think of them trying to force their political agenda down your throat:

press@google.com

I just did.

[Capt. Tom]

Can't get http://www.amon-hen.com/misc/mf.html
to come up. Maybe they got hacked. -Tom

[happydogdesign]

So a pathetic loser seeks attention by screwing up search engines...

[Prime Choice]

Of related interest is that Google has suddenly changed their search engine algorithms. As a consequence, a LOT of e-commerce sites have found traffic to their sites dropping off...just as the Christmas shopping season begins.

Maybe I'm off into tinfoil hat territory with my gut feeling, but -- knowing Google's leftist inclinations -- I wouldn't be at all surprised if this was done to bolster the Left's claims that the economy is on the skids. After all, wouldn't it be "deeply saddening" to the Democrats if the online shopping sales took a dive in the last quarter of 2003?

Something to mull over...

[Prime Choice]

I saw that one. Also saw this one on a Republican Humor list:

Top 25 Things You Have to Believe to Be a Democrat Today

1. Drug addiction is a disease that should be treated with compassion and understanding...unless the addict is a Conservative radio host.

2. The United States should be subservient to the United Nations. Our highest authority is not God and the U.S. Constitution, but a collective of tinpot dictators (and their appeasers) and the U.N. charter.

3. Government should relax drug laws regardless of the abuse potential, but should pass new anti-gun laws every time a gun is misused by a criminal.

4. Calls for increased security after a terrorist attack are "political opportunism," but calls for more gun control after a criminal's spree killing is "a logical solution."

5. "It Takes a Village" means everything you want it to mean...except creeping socialist government involvement in the nuclear family.

6. Disarming innocent, law-abiding citizens helps protect them from evil, lawless terrorists.

7. Slowly killing an unborn innocent by tearing it apart limb from limb is good. Slowly killing an innocent disabled woman by starving her to death is good. Quickly killing terrorists and convicted murderers & rapists is BAD.

8. Every religion should be respected and promoted in public schools the name of diversity, so long as those religions don't include Christianity.

9. The best way to support our troops is to criticize their every move. This will let them know they're thought of often.

10. Sexual harassment, groping and drug use are degenerate if you're the governor of California, but it's okay if you're the President of the United States.

11. Sex education should be required so that teens can make informed choices about sex, but gun education should be banned because it will turn those same teens into maniacal mass-murderers.

12. Minorities are blameless for the hatred of the racist, but America is entirely at fault for the Jihadist's hatred.

13. Poverty is the cause of all terrorism...which is why the leaders of al Qaeda are almost entirely U.S.-educated and were raised in wealth and luxury.

14. The Patriot Act is a horrific compromise of Constitutional rights, but anti-Second Amendment laws and Franklin Roosevelt's Presidential Order 9066 must be regarded "necessary evils."

15. We should unquestioningly honor the wishes of our age-old allies, even when said allies no longer act like our allies and have vested economic interests in propping up our enemies.

16. Socialized medicine is the ideal. Nevermind all those people who spend every dime they have to get to the United States so they can get quality medical care...that their nation's socialized medical community can't provide.

17. Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky and Natalie Maines are perfectly qualified to criticize our leadership, but Arnold Schwarzenegger, Charlton Heston, and Dennis Miller are just ignorant political hacks.

18. John Lott's research on how gun ownership reduces crime is junk science, but Michael Bellesiles is still an authority on why gun control is good (even though he was forced to resign from Emory due to research misconduct over his book "Arming America").

19. Bush's toppling the Saddam regime was a "diversion," but Clinton's lobbing a couple of cruise missiles at Iraq in the thick of the Lewinsky sex scandal was "sending a message."

20. A president who lies under oath is okay, but a president who references sixteen words from an allies' intelligence report should be dragged through the streets naked.

21. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning Second Amendment rights and shopping the courts for judges sympathetic to causes that wouldn't pass in any legislature.

22. "The People" in the First Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Fourth Amendment means The People; "the People" in the Ninth Amendment means The People; but "the People" in the Second Amendment (ratified in 1791) means the National Guard (created by an Act of Congress in 1903).

23. You support a woman's "right to choose" to terminate a pregnancy, but don't believe that same woman is competent enough to homeschool the children she bears.

24. Proven draft-dodging is irrelevant, but baseless claims of AWOL status is crucial to national security.

25. Threatening to boycotting Dr. Laura's and Rush Limbaugh's advertisers is exercising Freedom of Speech, but threatening to boycot CBS's "The Reagans" and Liberal actors is censorship and McCarthyist blacklisting.

[Mrs Zip]

ping

[discostu]

Bad news for you, Yahoo uses the Google search engine. Google won the search wars a long time ago.

[faithincowboys]

What SOBs. You know what else is terribly politicized? Amazon.com.

They seem very pro Dixie Chick. try to write a bad review about them, it's hard. They also seem to overstate the sales of Leftist artists and books. Saying that a meager selling Leftist product is flying off the shelves spurs sales. Many just buy what others are buying.

[zip]

Thx for the ping. Loved post 16.