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Plus Gogle topped themselves by coming up with President Bush's name whenever anyone typed in the words "Pathetic failure" in Google search.

This was due to the concerted efforts of many thousands of bloggers, who created page after page with "miserable failure" hrefs pointing to President Bush's site. It was an exploitation of one of Google pre-existing methods of associating search keywords with urls, based on volume of like-named links pointing to a given url target. The staff of Google had no part in this. In fact, the same type of tactic was been employed by the good guys against Michael Moore's site, though I don't remember which derogatory search phrase was used (as if anything could be considered derogotory against scum like him).

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"miserable failure" was Google-bombed to GWB, but also Jimmy Carter and Michael Moore. You can see the full bit here. Hillary Clinton and Dick Gephardt were at one point Google-bombed as "miserable failures," but they seem to have fallen a bit in the rankings lately.

In sum, what you say is correct. Google or its owners had no hand in making the miserable failure link.