Posted on 02/21/2005 1:11:19 AM PST by JohnHuang2
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Have you ever been Googlebombed?
Would you know it if you had been?
I just found out that I was selected to be the first target of a political Googlebombing attack in 2005 – a distinction I wear as a badge of honor.
By now, most of you are wondering if Farah has flipped his lid. You're probably asking yourself: "What is he talking about? What does it mean to be Googlebombed?"
I'm glad you asked.
A Google bomb is an attempt to influence the ranking of a given site in results returned by the Google search engine.
One of the first Google bombs was discovered in 1999 when someone got the bright idea to search the phrase "more evil than Satan" and Microsoft's home page came up.
But term wasn't coined until two years later in 2001 by Adam Mathes.
Later, Internet users were stunned to find out that when you searched the terms "miserable failure," the first selections were for President Bush. The White House had been Googlebombed. During the 2004 presidential campaign, it was discovered that searching the term "waffles" brought you to the official John Kerry website. It still does. Kerry had been Googlebombed. (He'll probably claim a Purple Heart for this.)
Well, now it's my turn.
Introducing the Googlebombproject, an endeavor apparently launched last month, whose goal is "exposing the hard right through Googlebombing." And, as I mentioned, I was the first target, followed quickly thereafter by radio talker Tammy Bruce and then Karl Rove.
Don't worry, it doesn't hurt. I didn't feel a thing, in fact, until an e-mailer brought this to my attention.
The site, apparently organized by blogger Scoobie Davis (not to be confused with Scoobie Doo) did lead me to a host of inaccurate reports about me and those with whom I am accused of conspiring.
Scoobie announced breathlessly Jan. 6:
I finally started working on the Googlebomb Project site. My first target is Scaife monkey-boy and the head of WorldNetDaily, Joseph Farah. Googlebombing is a cheap, easy method of media hacking. Let's help Internet researchers with the truth about Farah.
But perhaps the most interesting aspect of this Googlebomb attack is not in the words used – but "the art."
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Check out this massive acrylic-on-canvas mural painstakingly painted by Joel Pelletier on AmericanFundamentalists.com. It is 8 feet, 4 inches by 14 feet, 1.5 inches – a knockoff of an 1888 Ensor original.
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Pelletier admits it took him six months to study and paint this band of conspirators, which includes yours truly, as well as George W. Bush, Rush Limbaugh, Rupert Murdoch, Ann Coulter and close to 120 others.
Why?
Because "all Americans need to know what is going on – the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy that Hillary Clinton warned about is real, they think they can do no wrong with God on their side, and they are here on this painting," the artist hyperventilates.
Yes, promoting this conspiracy is part of the Googlebomb attack on me. Now when people search my name, they will see me linked with other famous "fundamentalists" like Bill O'Reilly and Sun Myung Moon.
Scratch just under the surface of some of the other links used in this particular Googlebomb effort and you will see the dark underbelly of the impotent, extremist American Left – a sick and seething anti-Semitism so virulent it would make Josef Goebbels blush.
In an open letter written to me, one of the Googlebomb conspirators charges:
Jewish power is pushing us to the eve of destruction, and ... you are a liar and a hypocrite and just as unethical in your own way as the media you seek to supersede.
It just warms my heart that people like this detest me so that they would make me their No. 1 Googlebomb target in 2005.
I pledge to do my best this year and beyond to live up to and fulfill their worst nightmares.
Without some good filters Google is going to end up in court. Mark my words.
No, but he would be proud.
When I google my name, my FR home page pops up first. Then four of my FR threads, and finally some other Larry Lucidos.
It's already being used to get personal information about people. It's just a matter of time until a stalker gets some one using a google search. The lawyers will jump on it.
Sure. P.J. Gladnick says it best (channelling, and writing, from the perspective of Al Gore):
"What happened was that Dowd was writing some highly critical columns about the antics of Monica's boyfriend. Since these stories were appearing in the liberal New York Times, action had to be taken to neutralize Dowd. Therefore we called upon the services of Zeta-Jones' future hubby, Michael Douglas. He was instructed to slip the Salami to Dowd in order to get her to change the tone of her articles. It worked beautifully. Not long after Douglas jumped her love-starved buns, Dowd changed the target of her newspaper barbs from Clinton to Ken Starr. Of course, Douglas was bitching the whole time about how tough it was diddling the dowdy Dowd but we reminded him that the boffing was necessary to the interests of the Liberal cause. The moment Clinton beat the rap at the Senate Impeachment trial, Douglas withdrew his Chimichanga away from the hungry Dowd for good without even so much as a goodbye note. So even though Maureen Dowd is still under the illusion that Douglas dumped her for Zeta-Jones, the truth is that he was only carrying out an unpleasant assignment as part of Operation Diddle Dowd."
She's 50-something and alone. Posting Zeta-Jones to Dowd threads is rubbing it in.
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