Posted on 01/30/2009 11:48:41 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
One administration after George Bush became the top result for a Google search for "miserable failure," new President Barack Obama has his own such artificially engineered result for the query "cheerful achievement."
Earlier Thursday morning, a search for the relatively unusual term returned Obama's whitehouse.gov site as the top link, the result of a bit of work called a Googlebomb . However, perhaps illustrating the frailty of this particular effort, the result had been bumped to second place behind news of the Obama Googlebomb published by the Google Blogoscoped blog. See the more recent view in the screenshot below.
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"By improving our analysis of the link structure of the web, Google has begun minimizing the impact of many Googlebombs. Now we will typically return commentary, discussions, and articles about the Googlebombs instead," Ryan Moulton and Kendra Carattini said in the post.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.cnet.com ...
Freeper google share holders should file a class action lawsuit against google. Google should not be allowed to do its blatant news manipulation for their political means.
How about linking “communist tool”?
“muslim trojan horse”
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I see that “french military victories” still returns interesting results.
Who the hell searches for “cheerful achievement”???
“Culture of Corruption”
Illegal alien. Non-citizen. Ayers puppet.
“I see that ‘rench military victories’ still returns interesting results.”
Have we forgotten Napoleonic terror so soon?
He came back once before, and he can do it again. Don’t tempt him.
“Who the hell searches for ‘cheerful achievement’???”
I don’t know. I guess reporters use machines that generate random combinations of words until they hit upon odd search results. They have to have something to write about, and who has time to waste waiting for stories to happen naturally?
"Going to war without the French is like going deer hunting without an accordian"
--Jed Babbin
“Napoleon Buonaparte was a Corsican (Italian ancestry), not a real Frenchman. Corsica only became French a year before he was born—it had belonged to Genoa.”
Yes, but he studied in a French school, followed the teachings of French theorists, used French weaponry technology, employed French subordinates, and benefitted from the Revolution’s reforms, such as promotion by merit, the corps system, and the staff system. I find it hard to believe that whatever genius he added to what was already there was a result of his having been born Corsican, as opposed to him as an individual.
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