How come if you google "miserable failure" the first hit is...

[ailsagirl]

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

Caution!! Don't click link unless you have a strong stomach (and don't mind seeing the Chimp)

The people at Google had to have set this up, right? (I don't know how it works but that's all I can figure)

:evilgrin:

[CalebHayes]

1. It's called a Google bomb

where you basicly play a trick on the spider that runs google. Others can explain this better than I.

[theorist]

2. Google Bombing

http://www.wordspy.com/words/Googlebombing.asp

[asthmaticeog]

3. As long as you're Googling anyway, look up "google bomb."

[TaleWgnDg]

4. Damn! Aint it grand?!! . . .

[Not_Giving_Up]

5. This is too funny

They're blaming the bloggers for "google washing" subjects.

http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php/3296101

snip

I've written about other examples of Google Bombing in the past (Google Bombs Aren't So Scary) and why I think it tends to be overplayed. But in this case, I find myself agreeing with The Register's Andrew Orlowski, who discussed how blogging activity might "googlewash" a term earlier this year. This is when the originating document or original meaning of a term is lost due to new material coming into the search results.

end snip

Is there anything that isn't caused by blogging these days?

[ailsagirl]

6. impeachment, unfortunately

But maybe that will change????

:bounce: :toast: :kick:

[laheina]

7. How nice of *'s people to

let us know that he's married to "first lady Laura Bush." I don't think that people would have put that one together on their own.

[tavalon]

9. Well, the people who voted for him

aren't the smartest cracker's in the box.

[AmyDeLune]

8. "bush's foreign friends"

type that in (quotes included) and hit the I Feel Lucky button. :D

[Rhiannon12866]

10. And here's the British story about it and how it works:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm