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Go to google and search for "miserable failure".
Click on the first search result. Or, this works even better if you just hit "I'm feeling lucky" instead of google search. I just realized that.
If this doesn't belong in news then feel free to move it but I just thought that was too amusing.
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Last edited by Mercury on Tue May 03, 2005 9:11 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Fourth link after Jimmy Carter & Michael Moore (sorry Righties ... you could only get #2 and #3 )
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'Miserable failure' links to Bush Bush has been the target of similar pranks before George W Bush has been Google bombed.
Web users entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website.
The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words.
Thus, members of an online community can affect the results of Google searches - called "Google bombing" - by linking their sites to a chosen one.
Weblogger Adam Mathes is credited with inventing the practice in 2001, when he used it to link the phrase "talentless hack" to a friend's website.
The search engine can be manipulated by a fairly small group of users, one report suggested.
If you are George Bush and typed the country's name in the address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly (IRAQ) Prank website Newsday newspaper says as few as 32 web pages with the words "miserable failure" link to the Bush biography.
The Bush administration has been on the receiving end of pointed Google bombs before.
In the run-up to the Iraq war, internet users manipulated Google so the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" led to a joke page saying "These Weapons of Mass Destruction cannot be displayed."
The site suggests "clicking the regime change button", or "If you are George Bush and typed the country's name in the address bar, make sure that it is spelled correctly (IRAQ)".
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Estranged wrote:
just_b wrote:
Michael Moore
Stupid FUCK!
No, that didn't work.
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Joined: Sun Oct 17, 2004 3:02 pm Posts: 10690 Location: Lost in Twilight's Blue
Interesting to see how they can get those matches to come up the way they do, and if you caught it before I edited my post it works much better if instead of choosing "google search" you go for "i'm feeling lucky".
_________________ Scared to say what is your passion, So slag it all, Bitter's in fashion, Fear of failure's all you've started, The jury is in, verdict: Retarded
In five years, when you get laid and grow up, you should go back and read some of these posts and if you've turned into a decent person you'll realize how much of an asshole you sound like right now
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TS808 wrote:
Well done. Bet that makes you feel useful.
not really
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stip wrote:
In five years, when you get laid and grow up, you should go back and read some of these posts and if you've turned into a decent person you'll realize how much of an asshole you sound like right now
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