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Thursday, January 22, 2004

Liberals capture Google, Miserable failure = George Bush?

Manipulation of Google results has meant that several other people such as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and filmmaker Michael Moore are now vying for the top spot in the results when you search "miserable failure" into Google according to this New York Times story (registration required):

The unlikely electoral battle is being waged through "Google bombing," or manipulating the Web's search engines to produce, in this case, political commentary. Unlike Web politicking by other means, like hacking into sites to deface or alter their message, Google bombing is a group sport, taking advantage of the Web-indexing innovation that led Google to search-engine supremacy.

...Of course, not everyone was laughing. When as the president's biography went to No. 1 for "miserable failure," some conservatives were convinced that so-called liberal control of the media had now been extended to search engines. A visitor to the comments page of freerepublic.com, a conservative news forum, suggested a boycott of Google and lamented: "How much longer are we going to have to put up with liberal bias in the media! It's bad enough that they have NPR but Google???"

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