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Dreamer128 05-02-2004 12:56 PM

George W Bush has been Google bombed.

Web users entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website.

The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words.

Thus, members of an online community can affect the results of Google searches - called "Google bombing" - by linking their sites to a chosen one.

Weblogger Adam Mathes is credited with inventing the practice in 2001, when he used it to link the phrase "talentless hack" to a friend's website.

The search engine can be manipulated by a fairly small group of users, one report suggested.

Newsday newspaper says as few as 32 web pages with the words "miserable failure" link to the Bush biography.

The Bush administration has been on the receiving end of pointed Google bombs before.

In the run-up to the Iraq war, internet users manipulated Google so the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" led to a joke page saying "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed."

The site suggests "clicking the regime change button", or "If you are George Bush and typed the country's name in the address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly (IRAQ)".

(BBC)

Felix The Assassin 05-02-2004 01:29 PM

Hmm, I tried it. Must have done a change regime since you made the post.

Now we have Jimmy Carter and Billary Clinton

Stratos 05-02-2004 07:42 PM

Yes, I've seen those. Didn't they make one about "French military victories" as well?

Djinn Raffo 05-02-2004 09:18 PM

Try waffles.

Illumina Drathiran'ar 05-02-2004 10:13 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Djinn Raffo:
Try waffles.
I would have guessed we'd get Bill Clinton.


Though to be fair, the French Military Victories is a doctored site (Nobody remembers Napoleon, do they?). This one is far more amusing.

Seraph 05-03-2004 12:06 AM

Napoleon was a Corsican, which allowed for some short term vitories, but in the long run, the mostly French armies still lost.

Donut 05-04-2004 06:05 AM

If you type the words "gullible americans" into google you are directed to the Fox News site.

Khazadman Risen 05-06-2004 10:38 AM

But Illumina, it's been 190 years since Napoleon,s last victories.

Stratos 05-06-2004 10:47 AM

I got John Kerry's site when I entered 'waffles'.

Illumina Drathiran'ar 05-06-2004 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Khazadman Risen:
But Illumina, it's been 190 years since Napoleon,s last victories.
If you want to quibble, then, you might do well to remember that the French more or less won the American revolutionary war.


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