Googling "failure" links to White House

[Uncledave]

Go to Google, type "failure" and hit "I'm feeling lucky".

Jerks.

[Hoodlum91]

Welcome to 2002.

[conservativefromGa]

welcome to 2003

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Someone please post the not this sh!t again picture for me please

[Gone GF]

This has been posted and explained a million times.

[CarrotAndStick]

It's called Google-bombing. The more people try it, the more it'll immprove in rank as the first link for the words typed.

[Uncledave]

Sorry. Ramesh at NRO Corner just posted it. Thought it was news.

[COEXERJ145]

[Borges]

NewsHistory/InActivism.

[Junior_G]

They could have at least directed the google-bomb to the Spanish bio: http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.es.html

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

I've always wondered why anyone would Google "failure" in the first place.

[ThePythonicCow]

An explanation, from: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html:

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Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture.

Googlebombing 'failure'

9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM

Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products

If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

[raybbr]

[bigLusr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

I love the French Military Victories Google Bomb. http://www.google.com/ Put in French Military Victories and hit I'm feeling lucky.

[LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget]

Welcome to the "Internets", or is it "Interweb"

[Xenophobic Alien]

OMG!

Why isn't this in breaking news!

j/k

[BigSkyFreeper]

I've always wondered why anyone would Google "failure" in the first place.

Or "miserable failure" for that matter.

[Always Right]

Googling IDIOT leads to this...this

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

LOL! Now that makes sense!