Posted on 01/30/2009 9:24:37 AM PST by Steelfish
Unlike Bush's 'Google Bomb,' Google Quickly Defuses Obama's Friday, January 30, 2009 By Joshua Rhett Miller
A Google search of 'miserable failure' now returns Web sites about the Googlebombs rather than the original pages that were returned. It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush.
But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama.
Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why.
In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site.
The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's bio rose to the top of the search results.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
None so great as buying of the US Presidency.
I wonder if they have an algorithm for “jugeared jackass”, my favorite name for the new President.
Do you Yahoo!
Careful, alliteration could be banned if this catches on. ;-)
You just made my day!
I prefer “Empty Suit”
Google has changed its logarithms many times since 2003. Google bombing doesn’t work today the way it used to. Links must relevant to be effective.
Just cause Obama wont come up on a Google search for fail, doesn’t it wont be true.
Could it be that since they did it once before, it was easier to stop this time...normally doing something a second time is done at a much quicker time. Just a thought.
While the first citation is for someone else, all the rest of the google list for “jug-eared jackass” match up with th big 0.
>>I wonder if they have an algorithm for “jugeared jackass”, my favorite name for the new President.<<
As of right now, there are 352 refences to “jug eared jackass” and 0bama. You may be on to something.
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