posted on December 9, 2003 01:17:59 AM new
I have a blog on Live Journal.com, and was just doing a random search and reading other people's journals. I came across a journal that said:
Just for fun, go to Google. Type in "miserable failure" and then click on the "I'm feeling lucky button." Good times!
It's interesting that it goes straight to the White House biography of Bush in which, of course, "miserable failure" is not mentioned. I wonder how long this search will last.
posted on December 9, 2003 07:29:06 AM new
Read the article in the Newsday link. It's called Google bombing. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
posted on December 9, 2003 10:07:02 AM new
Lol, Cheryl....But the French were not spoofed by Bush!!!
G.W. Bush victime d'une arme de distraction massive
mardi 9 décembre 2003
Tapez miserable failure dans Google et cliquez sur "J'ai de la chance". Vous obtiendrez... une biographie de G.W. Bush tirée du site officiel de la Maison blanche. Une page qui ne contient pourtant pas ces mots et n'aurait donc pas dû être archivée par Google avec cette association.
Ce n'est pas une erreur mais le fruit d'un facétieux pratiquant le Google bombing décrit dans un article de Newsday.
posted on December 9, 2003 10:34:32 AM new
In the middle of October, Mr. Johnston created links on his blog oldfashionedpatriot tying the phrase to the Bush biography and began to send messages to the writers of other blogs with an anti-Bush tilt telling them of his project. Many not only added the catch phrase to their own sites but urged readers to do the same.
Craig Silverstein, Google's director for technology, says the company sees nothing wrong with the public using its search engine this way. No user is hurt, he said, because there is no clearly legitimate site for "miserable failure" being pushed aside.
Moreover, he said, Google's results were taking stock of the range of opinions that are expressed online. "We just reflect the opinion on the Web,'' he said, "for better or worse."
posted on December 9, 2003 01:24:39 PM new
Wow...we just had an earthquake in Maryland... My computer desk was vibrating and the entire house was shaking.
posted on December 9, 2003 02:09:02 PM new
It's unusual for Maryland too. It was only a 4.5 with apparently no damage. Some people lost power in our area.
