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DRUDGE: Sophisticated 'Google Bombing' Campaign Targets 50 Republicans...
New York Times ^ | October 26, 2006 | TOM ZELLER

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: google; googlebombing; googledata; manipulatinggoogle
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'apologize if it is a duplicate post..searched and didn't find it.
1 posted on 10/26/2006 8:21:19 AM PDT by FreedomProtector
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To: FreedomProtector

If they got this from the DUmmies it should work well.


2 posted on 10/26/2006 8:22:05 AM PDT by freedomlover (Sorry, a tagline occurred. The tagline has been logged.)
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To: FreedomProtector

"We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up"




So I guess they won't link to the NYT. LOL


3 posted on 10/26/2006 8:23:10 AM PDT by freedomlover (Sorry, a tagline occurred. The tagline has been logged.)
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To: FreedomProtector

What? Something can be "too partisan" for liberals? That is almost an oxymoron....


4 posted on 10/26/2006 8:23:36 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: FreedomProtector

Misinfornmation, the dims stock in trade.


5 posted on 10/26/2006 8:24:14 AM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: FreedomProtector

Ok so who googles candidates names? I know I don't.


6 posted on 10/26/2006 8:25:42 AM PDT by linn37
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To: FreedomProtector
Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the left: deny others freedom and a voice. Shout down your opponents, squash debate and free speech while at the same time accusing your opponent of doing it. The leftists have no ideas, no morals, no ethics, and no vision. So therefor, all the left does is launch "Google bombs", sophomoric campaign ads, and hate mongering news conferences.

Another in a long list of reasons the left cannot be allowed back into power.
7 posted on 10/26/2006 8:25:48 AM PDT by M1Tanker (Proven Daily: Modern "progressive" liberalism is just National Socialism without the "twisted cross")
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To: FreedomProtector

Since they can't win the usual way, they resort to assorted practices of subterfuge and deception.


8 posted on 10/26/2006 8:26:12 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan (The California Republican Party needs Arnold the way a drowning man needs an anvil.)
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To: UB355; shield; LS

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?"


9 posted on 10/26/2006 8:26:29 AM PDT by Perdogg (Democratic Party - The political wing of Al Qaida)
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To: FreedomProtector

Considering google leans left themselves one wonders whether this was an inside job.


10 posted on 10/26/2006 8:27:16 AM PDT by kawaii
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To: FreedomProtector

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.


11 posted on 10/26/2006 8:28:46 AM PDT by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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To: kawaii

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

Freerepublic


12 posted on 10/26/2006 8:30:06 AM PDT by listenhillary (Islam = Religion of peace. If you say otherwise, we'll kill you!)
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To: kawaii
<> I figure Google's left-leaning inclination makes them very reluctant to try to make any corrections.
13 posted on 10/26/2006 8:30:16 AM PDT by SueAngel
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To: Perdogg

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.


14 posted on 10/26/2006 8:30:35 AM PDT by UseYourHead
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To: FreedomProtector
Worthless, do they think people will get so fed up with campaign ads on TV and radio that they'll google search people? As long as it keeps the libs occupied for a week or so, that is fine.
15 posted on 10/26/2006 8:31:08 AM PDT by BallyBill (Serial Hit-N-Run poster)
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To: FreedomProtector

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.


17 posted on 10/26/2006 8:32:45 AM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: FreedomProtector

More Soros funded cyber-terrorism, without a doubt.


18 posted on 10/26/2006 8:32:49 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: UseYourHead
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.


+1 Boycott Google!
19 posted on 10/26/2006 8:34:33 AM PDT by Quaid
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To: mysngrace

Please don't pass wind here.


20 posted on 10/26/2006 8:34:54 AM PDT by Notwithstanding
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