Posted on 10/26/2006 8:21:18 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
October 26, 2006
A New Campaign Tactic: Manipulating Google Data
By TOM ZELLER Jr.
If things go as planned for liberal bloggers in the next few weeks, searching Google for “Jon Kyl,” the Republican senator from Arizona now running for re-election, will produce high among the returns a link to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly.
Mr. Kyl “has spent his time in Washington kowtowing to the Bush administration and the radical right,” the article suggests, “very often to the detriment of Arizonans.”
Searching Google for “Peter King,” the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined “King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.”
Fifty or so other Republican candidates have also been made targets in a sophisticated “Google bombing” campaign intended to game the search engine’s ranking algorithms. By flooding the Web with references to the candidates and repeatedly cross-linking to specific articles and sites on the Web, it is possible to take advantage of Google’s formula and force those articles to the top of the list of search results.
The project was originally aimed at 70 Republican candidates but was scaled back to roughly 50 because Chris Bowers, who conceived it, thought some of the negative articles too partisan.
The articles to be used “had to come from news sources that would be widely trusted in the given district,” said Mr. Bowers, a contributor at MyDD.com (Direct Democracy), a liberal group blog. “We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up.”
Each name is associated with one article. Those articles are embedded in hyperlinks that are now being distributed widely among the left-leaning blogosphere.
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If they got this from the DUmmies it should work well.
"We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up"
What? Something can be "too partisan" for liberals? That is almost an oxymoron....
Misinfornmation, the dims stock in trade.
Ok so who googles candidates names? I know I don't.
Since they can't win the usual way, they resort to assorted practices of subterfuge and deception.
Why doesn't the GOP fight back?
Remember, "they send one of our guys to the hospital, we send one of their guys to the morgue?"
Considering google leans left themselves one wonders whether this was an inside job.
We as long as they don't do this against dem's they will be outraged as the racism. Note the larry king - Ford show last night on the ad the RNC ran.
There is a demand for a conservative search engine. Or a search engine with a button for left and right results.
Copyright 10/2006 10:30 am CDT
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Google is not exactly silent about their bias - they CLAIM that the results are based on "thousands" of parameters and data and that Google Bombing is not really effective but they continue to allow it even though they could stop it today because it serves their liberal leftist agenda. Google Bombing and Google Ads are two of the tactics used by Google to scam America with misinformation and steal their money as well.
I don't use them because of these criminal activities.
Am I the only one to believe that after all is said and done, the GOP will not only hold the House and the Senate but widen their lead as well.
More Soros funded cyber-terrorism, without a doubt.
Please don't pass wind here.
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