Miserable Failure? Google Trick Says It's Bush

[meisje]

December 6, 2003


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

more:
http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog1206,0,2339508.story?coll=ny-business-headlines

[La_Serpiente]

1. Nice to see

that this is getting coverage :-)

[Nlighten1]

9. I wonder if they are reading DU....

I bet they are...

[Born Free]

13. Wait till it shows up in the dictionary

They will have a picture of bush asside of it

[joeybee12]

2. Poloitical manipulation? Hell, he IS the biggest failure I can think of!

[neuvocat]

3. balony

there's no political overtones, its just a search engine.

[Terwilliger]

4. nice long story about that first link

he didnt mention that Bush showed up another 5 times on the first page

[greatauntoftriplets]

5. Mostly in the Lounge before.

And I thought it was more than 5 times.

[Bunny]

6. Not to get real pissy with you or anything, but

please read past the first page when posting. You'd see that not only is this not LBN, it's also been duped approximately 57 times in the past two days. :)

[MrPrax]

7. Just did it...

and oddly enough
Number three 'hit' is

Dick Gephardt for President - George W. Bush: A Miserable Failure
"This president is a miserable failure on foreign policy and on the
economy and he's got to be replaced.". - Dick Gephardt at the ...
www.amiserablefailure.com/ - 13k - 4 Dec 2003 - Cached - Similar pages

I wonder???

[americanstranger]

8. Get ready for more stories this weekend.

I've been interviewed in the past 3 days by the Newark Star-Ledger, Newsday (I'm the guy quoted in the article), NYTimes, NY Daily News, and ABC News, and the host of my blog got a call today from a reporter at Newsweek.

For some reason, the media really likes this story. I have no idea why.

-as

[alcuno]

10. You're a "trickster."

I read the article and had to laugh at the idea that this is a "prank." Seems like a fact to me.

[americanstranger]

11. 'Prank' was the reporter's word.

I'll be interested in seeing how everybody else spins it.

-as

[radfringe]

12. bwaaa-haaa-haaa

if you hit "I'm FEELING LUCKY" button it brings you right to his bio page...