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Many moons ago, a search for the word "FAILURE" brought up what ? GEORGE W.Bush !!

In the late 1930s, as humans managed to launch yet another war that would fail to end all wars, H.G. Wells wrote a series of essays laying out a plan for a better world. Wells, a novelist, reformer and sometime historian, believed that technology could connect people in ways that had never before been possible, joining them in a network and uniting their wisdom into a kind of synaptic and singular mind. The structure Wells imagined would be, he declared, “a sort of mental clearinghouse for the mind, a depot where knowledge and ideas are received, sorted, summarized, digested, clarified,...

Google has apologised after a racist caricature of Michelle Obama became the top result for users searching for pictures of the US First Lady. Anyone typing "Michelle Obama" into Google Images this morning was presented with an altered photo depicting the US president's wife with animal features. In a rare move, Google has posted a message on the top of the results page distancing itself from the image, in the box usually reserved for sponsored links. The note, which states "Sometimes our search results can be offensive. We agree" directs users to a page explaining the technology giant's policy on...

Sue Scheff ran a little business referring troubled teenagers to appropriate programs based on a diagnosed need. Her lawyer John W. Dozier Jr. sucessfully prosecuted the case to a multi-million dollar settlement. What you don't know about Google, search engines, laws on free speech and how to defend reputation and business could ruin your life. These two authors give a compelling narrative on how it came down and how to avoid the same happening to you.

One administration after George Bush became the top result for a Google search for "miserable failure," new President Barack Obama has his own such artificially engineered result for the query "cheerful achievement." Earlier Thursday morning, a search for the relatively unusual term returned Obama's whitehouse.gov site as the top link, the result of a bit of work called a Googlebomb . However, perhaps illustrating the frailty of this particular effort, the result had been bumped to second place behind news of the Obama Googlebomb published by the Google Blogoscoped blog. See the more recent view in the screenshot below. ******************************...

It took four years for Google to address the "Google bomb" that was lobbed at former President Bush. But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama. Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why. In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site. The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's bio...

Google has changed the rules on its serach engine to protect President Obama from the same sort of mockery it allowed of President Bush. For better or worse, Google's search engine has become the principal index for online information, giving the company tremendous opportunities to inflict bias on the nation's (and world's) information flow. Sadly, the company is demonstrating a willingness to slant leftward. During the Bush Administration, Google did nothing to prevent manipulation of its search algorithms so that one typed in "miserable failure", articles about President Bush appeared. But now that The One is president, the company has...

Newly minted President Barack Obama has enough problems to tackle without a Google bomb getting thrown into the mix. The new result for Googling “failure” In 2003, haters of President George W. Bush with a mean streak and tech savvy managed to Google-bomb him as a “miserable failure” — meaning that a rash of users linked Bush’s name to the words “miserable failure” so that if the term was Googled, Web sites referencing him would show up higher in the search. Even though Google eventually diffused the phenomenon in 2007 by improving the link structure surrounding the term, now Obama...

How To Push the Obama Birth Certificate Issue to the Top of Google's Rankings What is a Google-bomb and how does it help? The MSM is burying and/or ignoring or trashing the Obama birth certificate and Kenyan birth issue. This is one way to put the story in front of more people since the MSM is unwilling to do anything to nick the armor of their chosen one.Google bombingGoogle bombing is a tactic started by the left to make certain keywords bring up the webpage of certain people.Examples: The leftwingers did this to President Bush: They Google-bombed the keywords "miserable...

I am interested in seeing if the full-page Open Letter to Mr. Obama that will be published in the Chicago Tribune on both Monday, December 1, 2008 and Wednesday, December 3, 2008 will be picked up by the MSM. I googled "Chicago Tribune""Obama""ad""December 1, 2008" to see how many hits there were. My search returned 672 hits. I then thought that if all the freepers started googling this over the next week it might be interesting. I have no idea how to drive internet traffic but perhaps all the searching on the same topic will raise the issue on google's...

Check out how Google "do no evil" guys are covering for Obama! Of all the tons of Obama Birth Certificate questions on the web, they seem to have set up their first found links of "Obama's Birth Certificate" to go to phoney debunking sites and articles!!!!Google Carries Water for Obama and DNC!

Someone mentioned a comparison of the tax proposals by the candidates, so I decided to Google it up and what I saw shocked me Take a gander at the 'unbiased selection' of news articles pulled up by Google News on this topic: The lead story is presently (and has been for at least a half hour or so) from "Think Progress" and reads: "Top McCain Adviser Blatantly Lies About Obama’s Tax Proposals" Other stories are changing, yet they have this one, WRITTEN 22 HOURS AGO, nailed as the lead story. Click on the link and there are dozens more recent....

AS THE HOPELESS but energetic presidential campaign of Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, builds momentum in name recognition, fundraising and cross-ideology appeal, some conservatives are beginning to attack him in earnest. A GOP consultant condemns Paul's "increasingly leftish" positions. Syndicated columnist Mona Charen calls Paul "too cozy with kooks and conspiracy theorists." Film critic and talk-radio host Michael Medved looks over Paul's supporters and finds "an imposing collection of neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, 9/11 'truthers' and other paranoid and discredited conspiracists." For the most part, these allegations strike me as overblown and unfair. But, for argument's sake, let's say they're...

In a desperate attempt to sabotage the ABC movie, The Path To 9/11, the DUmmies have plotted to set off a "Google Bomb" in order to present their fictional version of 9/11 events as you can see in this THREAD titled, "The Great 2006 Google/Technorati 9-11 movie info bomb!" Apparently Fox News Washington managing editor, Brit Hume, got word of this "Google Bomb" plot and reported on it in his Political Grapevine report yesterday (to watch this report go to this Fox News PAGE and click on VIDEO). Of course, the DUmmies reacted angrily to their "Google Bomb" plot...

Democratic Web loggers are so upset by that ABC 9/11 movie that they've planned an Internet attack — known as a Google Bomb — to make sure their view of the film dominates the Web. Activists on Democratic-Underground.com have urged every Democratic blogger to post identical entries after the movie airs, all featuring the film's title, so that any Internet search for the movie will turn up a liberal blog highlighting what they say are multiple inaccuracies in the film. If the plan works, bloggers say they'll be prepared to utilize the technique "at every turn" between now and November.

Brit Hume just outted a 'plot' by the DU on The Grapevine. The Democratic blogs,(Democratic Underground cited by name ) are going to release a 'Google Bomb'. According to Brit they have planned to have everyone post identical entries to a review of the movie 'Path to 9/11'. Then when someone googles it they will get tons of hits to DU where the "truth will be told about the movie."

http://www.google.com 1- Go to www.Google.com 2- Type in the word Failure 3- Look at it the first listing 4- Tell other people before the people at Google Fix it

One of their main headlines is: Report: Cheney encouraged leak No link due to copyright complaints in the past by USA Today. The first thing you find when you type "leak" in google is a USA today headline about today's Cheney article by national review.

I know this tasteless Washington Post cartoon has been discussed on Free Republic. I wrote a post about it on my blog here. I am calling on the online community, particularly the blogging community, to take part in a Google Bomb and show the world what the Washington Post really is: a Tasteless Unpatriotic Rag. Some members of the Right Nation community are already taking part. To participate simply add the following link to your blog or website: Tasteless Unpatriotic Rag. You can track progress here and here.The more sites that add this link: Tasteless Unpatriotic Ragthe faster the google...

Many liberal blogs have been google bombing Santorum's good name. For those of you that don't know what a google bomb is, it is the work of many that use the fact that google also weights the relative important of a site to a keyword by how many sites link to it with a particular keyword. The problem the liberals have link Santorum's name to a site that tries to define it was a perversion, and so far they have been successful, I call on all on Free Republic that have a blog to please link to Santorum's real web...