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January 22, 2004
Google Bombing
Hey Steve, didja see this in this morning's NYTimes?
TIME was - say, two months ago - when typing the phrase "miserable failure" into the Google search box produced an unexpected result: the White House's official biography of President George W. Bush.
But now the president has a fight on his hands for the top ranking - from former President Jimmy Carter, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the author-filmmaker Michael Moore.
The article actually has a fairly accurate, if sneering, history of the art of Google bombing. The author however makes his opinion of it clear.
Clearly, anyone who goes through life trying to manipulate search engine results would have to be called a miserable failure. And how many of them can there be?
More than you think, Mr. McNichol.
Juvenile yes, but grownups like it too.
Posted by Rita at January 22, 2004 06:15 AM