Jeff Mottle Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Seems someone at Google has a political agenda: Go to www.google.com and enter in "miserable failure" then press the "I’m feeling lucky" button. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jucaro Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 I wish I could have done that to my local miserable political 'leaders' here in our country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camby Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 That's pretty sneaky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualizedconcepts Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Jeff, did you hear about this or were you just curious... Thanks for Sharing! Thorsten Bosch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fran Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Actually, it appears that there was a grass-roots effort to exploit Google into rooting up Bush whenever someone searched those words. I think the ultimate goal is to have "miserable failure" come up close to the top of the list when you search "George W. Bush". Of course, in my opinion, the words don't really apply to him. He doesn't seem in the least bit miserable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Homeless Guy Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 have you done this one before... 'weapons of mass destruction' then hit 'i'm feeling lucky' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Erthal Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 What about typing "weapons of mass destruction" and hitting "im lucky" ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victor Erthal Posted December 3, 2003 Share Posted December 3, 2003 Hey! Simultaneous post! :ngelaugh: :ngelaugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted December 3, 2003 Author Share Posted December 3, 2003 Originally posted by visualizedconcepts: Jeff, did you hear about this or were you just curious... Thanks for Sharing! Thorsten Bosch LOL, no one of the Smoothe guys in London forwarded it to me. Oddly I thought someone might wonder why I was searching for this term. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
visualizedconcepts Posted December 4, 2003 Share Posted December 4, 2003 Jeff, I don't know what people did when there were no computer or internet - but typing in weird stuff in google and seeing what comes out of that datatbase is certainly better than spinning thumbs around each other (my grandfathers past time...). TB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 Hi all, check this out: Foes of Bush Enlist Google in Group Prank By SAUL HANSELL, The New York Times Earlier this year, Google started a widely used news service. Last week, it looked to some users of the Google search that the site had started to editorialize. Anyone searching on Google for the phrase "miserable failure" was sent to the official White House biography of President Bush. Google executives say they have no corporate opinion of the Bush presidency. Instead, the episode is another example of a form of cyber-graffiti known as "Google bombing." It is a group prank. If enough Web pages link a certain Web page to a phrase, the Google search engine will start to associate that page with the phrase - even if, as in the case of Mr. Bush's official biography, the phrase does not occur on the destination Web site. Beginning a few months ago, for example, the No. 1 search result on Google for the term "weapons of mass destruction" has been a satiric Web page made to look like a Microsoft error message. Inspired by this and stirred by his objections to Mr. Bush's policies, a computer programmer, George Johnston, created a Google bomb to tie Mr. Bush's official biography to the phrase "miserable failure," watchwords of the presidential campaign of Richard A. Gephardt. (Mr. Johnston, who lives in Bellevue, Wash., said he had no association with the Gephardt campaign and in fact preferred another Democratic candidate, Dennis J. Kucinich.) In the middle of October, Mr. Johnston created links on his blog (oldfashionedpatriot.blogspot.com) tying the phrase to the Bush biography and began to send messages to the writers of other blogs with an anti-Bush tilt telling them of his project. Many not only added the catch phrase to their own sites but urged readers to do the same. Craig Silverstein, Google's director for technology, says the company sees nothing wrong with the public using its search engine this way. No user is hurt, he said, because there is no clearly legitimate site for "miserable failure" being pushed aside. Moreover, he said, Google's results were taking stock of the range of opinions that are expressed online. "We just reflect the opinion on the Web,'' he said, "for better or worse." 12-08-03 11:49 EST Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted December 9, 2003 Share Posted December 9, 2003 That's great!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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