December 08, 2003
#330 - And It's Not Just Google

From yesterday's Seattle Times, "Web prank associates Bush with 'failure'":

A search for the phrase "miserable failure" on the search engine Google brings up the biography of President Bush on the official White House Web site, in one of the more prominent search-engine manipulations with political overtones.

The phrase appears nowhere in the bio. But computer users rigged the search-engine results by posting the phrase on Web pages and linking it to the Bush bio, in a technique called Google bombing.

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