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Miserable Failure? Google Trick Says It's Bush

 

By Richard J. Dalton Jr

Staff Writer

 

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.

 

The phrase appears nowhere in the bio. But computer users rigged the search engine results by posting the phrase on Web pages and linking it to the Bush bio, in a technique called Google bombing.

 

"I thought it was absolutely one of the funniest ideas I've ever heard," said Don Waller, owner of Don Waller Interactive, a Web design company in Islip Terrace and a blogger who joined the prank in late October. "I just decided to jump in with it."

 

"This is just one of those spontaneous things that a blogger will post something and other bloggers will say, 'This is a great idea.'"

 

 

 

 

From Newsday

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