Google makes a Bush statement.

See for yourself.

Go to Google.com and type in "miserable failure".
Then hit the "I feel Lucky" button.

Interesting thing from the top search engine company.
What are they trying to say anyway?

This is espicially interesting since the page that comes up www.whitehouse.gov... doesn't contain the words "miserable failure". So why is it the first page listed? Also interesting is the fact that there's a Dick Gephart-for-prez site named amiserablefailure.com...so did someone at "Gephardt for President" know about the google trick, or does someone at google support Gephardt? Or is it a coincidence? Any tech people want to explain this?

Not an expert here. I think someone may have had that link in an article or a blog. Then other people linked to the link, which put it at the top of the google search. Someone had done the same thing regarding France. Unfortunately, I do not remember the text you are suppposed to search on for the French example. Anyone else ever come across this?

Originally posted by sharky
This is espicially interesting since the page that comes up www.whitehouse.gov... doesn't contain the words "miserable failure". So why is it the first page listed? Also interesting is the fact that there's a Dick Gephart-for-prez site named amiserablefailure.com...so did someone at "Gephardt for President" know about the google trick, or does someone at google support Gephardt? Or is it a coincidence? Any tech people want to explain this?

Well, from a technical standpoint...the "I feel Lucky" button gives you the very first most relevant listing returned from Google. This would be more of a statement from someone at Google than anything else, because relevancy is decided by a Google algorithm based on many things.

In a nutshell, how relevant the page is to your search. In this case the words "miserable failure" are not on the page and usually need to be in the title, the header, and stated many times in the page text for a #1 slot.

Seems someone at Google decided that this web page was the most relevant on the entire web for the words "miserable failure".

Thank you, you have made my day

I found the phrase about France. Type French Military Victories and hit I'm feeling lucky.

Here's a link about the French phrase.

www.google-watch.org...

Here's a link about how bloggers may manipulate Google search results.

www.google-watch.org...

[Edited on 4-12-2003 by DownValley]

Originally posted by DownValley
I found the phrase about France. Type French Military Victories and hit I'm feeling lucky.

I did and got a list of their defeats.
Wow! They sure have lost a lot.

LOL No army has been shot more times in the back then the French army.

Originally posted by ZeddicusZulZorander

Originally posted by DownValley
I found the phrase about France. Type French Military Victories and hit I'm feeling lucky.

I did and got a list of their defeats.
Wow! They sure have lost a lot.

Not trying to turn this into a anti-Frog, ummm sorry anti-France thread but I had to get this in....

"As far as I'm concerned, war always means failure"

---Jacques Chirac, President of France

Type in Weapons of mass destruction.

That's hilarious!

LOL I love that quote!

typ "sex" and im feeling lucky

warning: there are some pics... theres another one too theres 3 things you can typ with "bush" coming up

Originally posted by DownValley
Not an expert here. I think someone may have had that link in an article or a blog. Then other people linked to the link, which put it at the top of the google search. Someone had done the same thing regarding France. Unfortunately, I do not remember the text you are suppposed to search on for the French example. Anyone else ever come across this?

Bingo! Searching for miserable failure at google will bring back the whitehouse.gov page on bush even if you don't click the 'I'm feeling lucky' button. The reason for that is because blogs/articles HAVE done exactly what you said -- they use the keywords Miserable Failure and make it a link directly to Bush's biography at whitehouse.gov. Because this is the way google spiders, it says 'hey, that whitehouse.gov page has tons of miserable failures!' and moves the website to the top when you search for those keywords.

This is ALSO the reason that google's 'anti-spam' methods have not worked. You could just as easily use the words 'Nazi Bush' or 'Bush Nazi' and link those keywords to abovetopsecret. If spread around on a few blogs/articles, abovetopsecret would become top of the list when someone typed in Nazi Bush or Bush Nazi at google and searched.

I'm not certain if google is moving to correct this... I would assume they are because as it stands companies can just use this method and get higher up on the food chain without actually having any of the content that their keywords point to.

Yeah I heard about this today from somebody I know who is a Bush hater and is also a left-wing techie. Seems this is a running joke around the web right now. Real cute, I can't understand the infantile brain no matter how hard I try.

Originally posted by maynardsthirdeye
Type in Weapons of mass destruction.

I love it! Why didn't I know about this little problem of Google's earlier, and who is the person that discovered these?

Its their oppinion about the things as they are..

Latest news in this is right here:

Engineering Google results to make a political point

"I'm actually surprised how easy it was to do," said the mastermind of the Bush effort, George Johnston, 46, a computer programmer in Bellevue, Wash., who writes a liberal-leaning Web log, or blog, called Old Fashioned Patriot.