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Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank
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Posted on 01/22/2004 4:25:27 PM PST by cmsgop
Bellevue Man Behind Bush Google Prank
January 22, 2004
By KOMO Staff & News Services
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BELLEVUE - A Bellevue computer programmer is taking credit for a stunt that's making waves in the Internet world.
The 'Google bomb', as it's called, leads searchers of the phrase "miserable failure" on Google.com to an unexpected result: the official White House biography of President George Bush.
"I'm actually surprised how easy it was to do," George Johnston told the New York Times. "It took about 6 weeks to get Bush's biography as the No. 1 result. I had no idea when I'd get people all over the world involved.
Google bombing has quickly become an armchair sport among those who have a message to broadcast and perhaps a bit too much time on their hands. Unlike hacking into sites, Google bombing is a group sport, taking advantage of the Web-indexing innovation that led Google to search-engine supremacy.
You can read the full article, including the specifics of how he pulled it off, in our newspaper partner, the King County Journal.
And it's not just Bush who's fallen victim to the Google bomb. No. 2 on the Google search list is former President Jimmy Carter's White House biography.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: bushbasher; google; miserablefailure
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Figures that loser would live 15 min away from me....
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:25:28 PM PST
by
cmsgop
To: Howlin
Ping
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:27:41 PM PST
by
cmsgop
( How Come Vic Tayback Never Won an Oscar ???????????????????????????????)
To: Chad Fairbanks
Any ideas, oh Practical Joke Master?
To: cmsgop
Cute. Someone with WAY too much time on his hands.
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:29:21 PM PST
by
SW6906
To: cmsgop
With Google, Bush is still number 1 and Carter 2 -- but -- Michael Moore and Hillary are gaining fast at number 3 and 4.
On AOL search Michael Moore is number 1, Jimmy Carter is number 2 and Hillary number 3.
To: Jackson Brown
How does one contribute to this?
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:31:29 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS! http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/index.htm)
To: cmsgop
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:36:19 PM PST
by
XHogPilot
To: Jackson Brown
No...all those libs are #2....if you know what I mean...
To: cmsgop
Don't feel bad...he's probably doing it on MS time.
To: Sofa King
I think you have to have some kind of web site and put a link to what page you want to link to the words "miserable failure". IOW, have the words miserable failure as the link to click to take you to Hillery's home page. (or whom ever).
I imagine even free vanity web sites thru one's ISP would do.
To: cmsgop
To: cmsgop
To: cmsgop
Type 'Dan Tucker' (without the quotes) into Google. :D
To: cmsgop
Am I the only one here thinking that guy badly needs a hobby (or a girlfriend)?
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:45:58 PM PST
by
KangarooJacqui
(taglines are for people who care about this kinda stuff...)
To: cmsgop
If everybody puts a link from the words miserable failure to either the Michael Moore site or the Hillary site (you can see these by googling 'miserable failure) on their member pages you can increase their rankings.
To: KangarooJacqui
>>>
Am I the only one here thinking that guy badly needs a hobby (or a girlfriend)? <<< Nah, he needs his teeth brushed with a winch handle.
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:50:50 PM PST
by
HardStarboard
(Dump Wesley Clark.....he worries me as much as Hillary!)
To: Jackson Brown
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:51:11 PM PST
by
Sofa King
(-I am Sofa King- tired of liberal BS! http://www.angelfire.com/art2/sofaking/index.htm)
To: Sofa King
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posted on
01/22/2004 4:59:13 PM PST
by
JoJo Gunn
(Help control the Leftist population - have them spayed or neutered. ©)
To: Sofa King
How does one contribute to this?Here's a freerepublic link, and an outside link on how to do it.
I think it goes something like this...
To: Prodigal Son
If everybody puts a link from the words miserable failure to either the Michael Moore site or the Hillary site Can I do both of them?
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