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Author:  meloffxi [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:32 am ]
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go to http://www.google.com
type "Failure"
click "I'm feeling lucky" today.

here is what you get:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

not kidding... it's working still at 10:35pm PT

Author:  Tilo [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:37 am ]
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It's been working for a while. Same with "Miserable Failure". It's called a Google bomb.

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

Author:  Jimbean [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:40 am ]
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used to be able to search for french military victories and it'd says "oops! did you mean french military defeats" ouch lol

Author:  Led [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 8:48 am ]
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google is quite liberal, i posted a ss of my gmail account that put all my republican/conservative news letters in the bulk mail folder :?

Author:  Caduceus [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 12:35 pm ]
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Quote:
google is quite liberal, i posted a ss of my gmail account that put all my republican/conservative news letters in the bulk mail folder

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/ ... ilure.html
Quote:
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.

Author:  Kazekuro [ Thu Oct 20, 2005 2:02 pm ]
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lol greatest thing I've seen all day.

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