Sometime near Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 08:34:17AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi World! > > I read this: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/22/technology/circuits/22goog.html > > a NYT report on Google's search engine. > The report says "two months ago" but it is true now: > searching for "miserable failure" produces Bush's biography :-) > > Question I have: who would think of searching for "miserable failure", > or perhaps does Google leak its hidden motives? Or are they? >
Hi, I cant view the article because im not registered at NYT but i believe that this sort of thing is called "google bombing". Ive seen it many times before (eg "evil empire"->Microsoft corporation). I think its just done by people who own alot of domains, they just post pages that make a real good strong link between "miserable failure" and "george bush". Forums are also a great place for these bombings to occur. And because google is so cool, it scans these pages and picks up on the fact that bush is a miserable failure and thus you get his official site as the #1 link. People find out about these i would assume by the people who started them telling their friends and so on...wildfire spreads fast on the internet :P. -- Cheers, rinmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
