Google 'miserable failure': It's Bush

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | 12/6/2003

[Proverbs 3-5]

Based on the second to last paragraph it seems like we could make our own to pop up first...?

Google 'miserable failure': It's Bush Phrase typed into search engine brings up biography of president

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Posted: December 6, 2003

Users of the popular search engine Google who type in "miserable failure" will find the official White House biography of President George W. Bush pop up as the first entry.

Though often intoned by presidential candidate Richard Gephardt, D-Mo., the phrase appears nowhere in the Bush bio page.

Silicon Valley-based Google is not responsible for the search-engine result, according to New York Newsday.

Computer users rigged it by posting the phrase on Web pages and linking it to the Bush biography, the paper said, in a technique called Google bombing.

A Weblog enthusiast said he spontaneously joined in the prank in late October.

"I thought it was absolutely one of the funniest ideas I've ever heard," Don Waller, owner a Web design company in New York, told the paper. "This is just one of those spontaneous things that a blogger will post something and other bloggers will say, 'This is a great idea.'"

Newsday said White House spokesman Ken Lisaius had no comment, and Google did not return phone calls.

Creating the association apparently required no more than 32 pages with the phrase "miserable failure" linking to the Bush bio.

Just before the Iraq war began, tricksters rigged Google to bring up a page ridiculing France for its refusal to join coalition forces. A search for "French military victories" brought up a spoof page modeled after the standard "no documents were found," which asked, "Did you mean 'french military defeats?'"

[zarf]

Well this is the 100th thread about this topic. I think it's about time to put it out of it's repetitious misery.

[metalboy]

I tried it and it works. Just curious; What is their definition of "Success"?

[Izzy Dunne]

I guess you didn't see the other 99 threads on this, or the request to stop posting this tripe.

Nobody seems to ask this question, though:
Why would someone type "miserable failure" into a SEARCH engine?

At least someone might type "French military victories", looking for history.

[paguch]

If this is not corrected by Google after all this time, you can blame Google.

[Fresh Wind]

Well, I tried it, and 26600 hits turned up. I looked at every one of them, and the following pattern emerges. About 10% were unrelated to Bush at all. About 30% were from Democrats bashing Bush, proving how pervasive the DNC talking point network is. The remainder were discussions of what happens when you type "miserable failure" into Google.

[Proverbs 3-5]

Actually I looked in various threads and did a search in Free Republic and did not find it. OK so I missed it. So What.

So sorry to have inconvenienced you. I did not know that approval to post anything was restricted.

I find it curious that you chose to reply to my post and complain about it rather than ignore it and let it die if it's overblown any way.

[martin_fierro]

Hey, look at all the hits "Clinton Rapist" turns up. Golly.

[Prodigal Son]

Free Republic search engine returns for Google.

[Mad Dawgg]

You should not post any more google threads. As it has been requested by those who control the ZOT machinery. (For further info see this thread.)

However, there is some concern that Google-Story-Novices may have trouble spotting a Google-Story.

So, I have rounded up a few Google-Stories so those who are unfamiliar the more esoteric nuances may better aqquaint themselves with the subject.

Hanzel and Google

One Flew Over the Google's Nest

The Good The Bad and The Google

Googlegeddon

Hans Christian Google

The Night Before Google

The Lord of The Googles

The Twin Googles

Return of the Google

A Few Good Googles

Googlepocalypse Now

The Googlenator

The Fifth Google

Paint your Google

The Googlefather

Harry Potter and the Google's Stone

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Google

Bonnie and Google

Once Upon a Time in the Google

Thank you for your support.

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

I guess you didn't see the other 99 threads on this, or the request to stop posting this tripe.

You don't mean to say that efforts to keep this topic from being posted anew were a miserable failure, do you...? :)

[G.Mason]

"Well this is the 100th thread about this topic. I think it's about time to put it out of it's repetitious misery."

You said it!

I checked in to see if anyone else was as fed up with this as I was.

Face it folks ....... anyone who is looking up "miserable failure" probably is one.

[Cronos]

google tracks pages and rates them by the number of links to that site and what name is given to those links. This is NOT google's fault or it's problem. It's a dimocratic dumb idea, so don't make a big deal out of it

[Zack Attack]

Do reverse link lookup and you can see some samples of this stuff. Here is one. Go about halfway down the page to a post by Mary and you will see a link to "Miserable Failure".

Of course, Miserable Failure can work in other ways also. :-)

[Vision]

I think you are right on.

I just finsihed an undergradate course in IR(seach engines) this semester. A search engine indexes on terms found in a web page's html. As I look through the whitehouse.gov page, I find neither miserable or failure. It could be number one due to outside links labeling it those terms, but I doubt it.

Therefore, it does seem google has choosen to index this page with terms it believes are descriptive.

[muawiyah]

Mitch, wanted you to note this thread and the response Vision just made.

As you recall part of my thesis concerning the anthrax attack against the USPS was that AlQaida had "hacked" a certain website to use as a message/information center.

The deal was whenever you searched for a website on www.google.com with the key words GREENDALE GREENSBORO BROKAW, you always got the same report back from Google which could be used to link you into the next level of information necessary to be an effective, well housed, well fed and comfortable terrorist in America.

You, among others, disputed the utility of this idea since, after all, Google is constantly refreshing itself, which, of course, is true. My own website gets picked up and rereferenced several times a month. This particular website DID NOT get rereferenced by Google in the last 5 years!

This thread leads us to a conclusion that the only way you could get this result is if you could "hack" Google, and in much the same way it would have to be "hacked" to keep my proposed terrorist reference site up, unchanged, for so many years.

[Paradox]

You searched but missed it? How is that possible? A FreeRepublic search on the word "google" turns up several, matches.

Having said that, this is the first time I have seen it. But then again, if I had intended to post...

[giotto]

Sometimes I long for the old Free Republic days when the only rule was Survival of the Fittest. One could find dozens of threads on the same topic, but eventually only two or three would take over and garner the majority of replies. It was messy, but at least a person could post without fear of having his well crafted thread removed (sometimes with multiple replies already attached), or getting pinged with verbal spit wads telling them someone has already posted it. And when there's breaking news, you have to first search, then compose, then search again, to see if anyone has posted in the seconds before you hit the Post button.

[ChemistCat]

Search doesn't work for me either. It doesn't matter how I do it...it never shows. I'm probably not the only one getting timid about posting anything.

You might say it's a miserable failure....

[Senator Pardek]

#2!