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Friday, October 14, 2005 by NightTrainthedark | Discussion: Search Engines

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rabidrobot
Reply #21 Friday, October 14, 2005 1:42 PM
This is the result of one of the earliest attempts at "Google Bombing" and was actually a bit of a big deal about a year ago. Micheal Moore being number two represents the right's attempt to stack things in their favor, but they could never catch up with the original network of "miserable failure" links to the white house page.

http://www.detnews.com/2005/technology/0510/02/A23-333865.htm
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/chi-0509260025sep26,0,811464.column?coll=orl-business-headlines

Some recent stories.

As for my unasked for opinion, the president does deserve respect, simply because he holds the position. That does not mean blind lemming agreement with his every statement and policy. We don't elect a dictator then sit back and wait four years to see what happened. I'd bet those who consider critiscism of Bush unpatriotic because "he is the president and deserves respect" were singing a very different tune in 1998.
NightTrainthedark
Reply #22 Friday, October 14, 2005 1:50 PM
LOCK PLEASE.
Moderateman
Reply #23 Friday, October 14, 2005 2:12 PM
the President DESERVES NOTHING, his office deserves respect, much like the military I never forgot to salute the uniform officers wore, I did not respect most of them.
Sleeping Dragon
Reply #24 Friday, October 14, 2005 2:14 PM
his office deserves respect


my only point.
aimzzz
Reply #25 Friday, October 14, 2005 2:18 PM
LOCK PLEASE.


but you clicked 'I'm feeling lucky'...
NightTrainthedark
Reply #26 Friday, October 14, 2005 2:42 PM
werewolf
Reply #27 Friday, October 14, 2005 6:03 PM
ParaTed2k
Reply #28 Friday, October 14, 2005 7:32 PM
Lighten up folks! Funny is Funny even if it against someone on our side! ;~D
Aladdin610
Reply #29 Friday, October 14, 2005 8:04 PM
That's so sweet of Google. Google should be president.

! Vote for Google (2008) !
eieio
Reply #30 Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:02 AM
#19 by Citizen little_whip
Fri, October 14, 2005 1:09 PM

Try typing in "French military victories" one time...hehe.


And the first result is:

Your search - french military victories - did not match any documents. Suggestions:.
- Make sure all words are spelled correctly. - Try different keywords.


Hehe, that's a good one.

Reminds me of that old line "You can't get there from here", when being asked for directions to a particular place, usually remote or out in the boondocks, as we used to say.
BONEHEADdb
Reply #31 Saturday, October 15, 2005 9:56 AM
What ever happened to respecting those that are in authority? We are fortunate enough to live in a place where we can vote to change things if we don't like them



Yes we can vote, but things don't change.
jose rey alo
Reply #32 Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:18 PM
i'm smiling not really coz of the result, well, hehe...googlebombing?
oh well, i wouldn't have found out about this except from this forum. like, hey, there's not many surfers who would just search for "failure" or, much less "miserable failure" anyway
Odin314
Reply #33 Sunday, October 16, 2005 7:51 PM
Wow! Old news!

And I can only see this as a childish prank. Wow, you made George W. Bush look like a failure! Great job. Now go give yourself a pat on the back, i'm sure your friends in sixth grade English will be proud of you. This isn't even funny.

And before you start to say i'm pro-Bush, you can't be farther from the truth. Just because I don't endorse something attacking one guy doesn't mean i'm automatically on that man's side.
RiddickRom
Reply #34 Sunday, October 16, 2005 8:16 PM
And before you start to say i'm pro-Bush, you can't be farther from the truth. Just because I don't endorse something attacking one guy doesn't mean i'm automatically on that man's side.


I wouldn't say you were pro-bush, but I'd definetly say your humour gland was swollen, you wanna get that looked at
joetheblow
Reply #35 Sunday, October 16, 2005 11:09 PM
Ummmm... is this the same search engine where the most searched anything is Pamela Anderson???

LOL

In other words, it is interesting how the internet is in tune with nerds who live at home with their moms.
dnnmsd
Reply #36 Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:09 PM
Not one mention of the word in the HTML source. It might lead one to think that the search engine itself has been modded to return the link it did.

Search engine acting as an opinion piece. Hmmm
singrdave
Reply #37 Wednesday, October 19, 2005 4:25 PM
Pure serendipity! Even if it is controlled, contrived serendipity...
Odin314
Reply #38 Thursday, October 20, 2005 9:21 PM
Actually, no one at Google has modded the search engine to show the autobiography of Dubya when one searches "failure." Rather, this result was done by using a method called googlebombing.

In a nutshell, googlebombing works by having a whole bunch of people click on a hyperlink that says "failure" that leads to our favorite president's autobiography. When Google's web crawlers look at the immense traffic from one site that links "failure" to the web page, Google automatically assumes that the word "failure" links to "George W. Bush," and thus, the top result for "failure" is the autobiography of Bush Junior.

As is seen by the later results, Republicans tried to top this by linking "failure" to such Democratic people as Micheal Moore and Jimmy Carter, however the sheer volume of people clicking on that little link is still holding.
scorpio-logic
Reply #39 Friday, October 21, 2005 6:12 PM
Not one!? That's even more humorous than "failure".
Sembetu
Reply #40 Tuesday, November 1, 2005 7:57 PM
#5 by Sleeping Dragon
Fri, October 14, 2005 07:49 AM
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[Sleeping Dragon]
What ever happened to respecting those that are in authority? We are fortunate enough to live in a place where we can vote to change things if we don't like them. There is no need to slander or mock our Commander in Chief. I am not saying that this thread is doing that, but it does highlight the fact that it is being done. Just my humble opinion.


remember the 1st amendment. regardless of whether or not I agree, I am still free to parodize, even mock whomever I please. some may say that mockery is the highest form of flattery...

#19 by Citizen little_whip
Fri, October 14, 2005 1:09 PM
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[little_whip]
Try typing in "French military victories" one time...hehe.


very funny. google actually asked me if I meant defeats... very funny.

#37 by Citizen dnnmsd
Wed, October 19, 2005 4:09 PM
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Not one mention of the word in the HTML source. It might lead one to think that the search engine itself has been modded to return the link it did.

Search engine acting as an opinion piece. Hmmm


um, check the source again. it lists a doctype of xhtml trans, and the standard tag is present in bothe the top and bottom required positions.

BTW, comedy is comedy, but I am done with this thread. interesting and funny, but useless information. .

Sembetu

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