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| GOOGLE outrage |
| 2005-09-15 |
- Go to Google.com - Type in "failure" - Click on "I'm Feeling Lucky" A biography of George W. Bush comes up. Now Google is supposed to be unbiased? Apolitical? What an outrage. |
| Posted by:Wheang Elmomotle4986 |
| #19 you guys are a bit slow...this has been around for a couple of years now |
| Posted by: Igster 2005-09-15 23:40 |
| #18 Frank, that image is downright poetic. Of the Edgar Allen Poe strain. ;-) |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2005-09-15 23:11 |
| #17 BTW, one of the early efforts in Google Bombing was against SCO - a company that's the bane of Open Source / Linux advocates. The campaign linked the phrase "litigious bastards" with SCO, at least for a while. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-15 22:09 |
| #16 A lot of this was done in the run up to the 2004 election. In particular, the KOSsacks and the DUmmies spent a lot of time and effort Google Bombing and manipulating on-line polls. Fortunately for everyone else, it wasn't real effective. |
| Posted by: DMFD 2005-09-15 22:06 |
| #15 Seafarious, thanks for the clarity, I for one didn't know how that stuff works. It helps, as I do like using Google, but that type info isn't right. |
| Posted by: Jan 2005-09-15 20:28 |
| #14 jus notised ima farked that leenk. heerz boris url- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Pribich |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-15 19:34 |
| #13 I know a better one. Type "French military victories" and click on the first one. |
| Posted by: Tim 2005-09-15 16:46 |
| #12 Google Bomb, yes, and if you DON'T hit the 'lucky' button, you'll see ol' lard-ass Mikey is #2. Don't blame the tool! Some folks have figgered out how to manipulate it for their own ends. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2005-09-15 11:23 |
| #11 Dang, I searched my name both on wikipedia and on fr.wikipedia : nothing, nothing! I am asking to you, does one have to be an antisemitic serb with a bad hygiena and unsual sex habits to be featured in wikipedia!!!??? I'm french, so the bad hygiena and sex habits thingies are already part of the package deal, and, still, nothing! Damn! I feel so insignificant! Oh, and this "miserable failure" search topic was brought up a while ago by Zhang Fei IIRC, with the same Google bomb explanation. Myself I'd rather search for interracial gangbangs+strap-on fetish+golden shower, that's how I get all the geopolitical stuff and all. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2005-09-15 11:16 |
| #9 lol frank! we needer put him asswhole name up tho for it to werk. boris pribich mebbe im try doin "ima feel lukee" with him name sumtime. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-15 10:45 |
| #8 I thought he was just a hateful antisemitic troll based in San Fernando Valley... a serb punk....with a tiny penis and hairy ears (there, that'll boost his google image) |
| Posted by: Frank G 2005-09-15 10:16 |
| #7 seafarious is rite. |
| Posted by: muck4doo 2005-09-15 10:05 |
| #6 PS Make sure you read through their long list of examples. Some of them are pretty funny. "Miserable failure" in Italian points to Berlusconi's page PPS Those of you who were here in The Year of Boris can probably guess that much of his vile venom on Fred's bandwidth was just a pathetic attempt to manipulate his own rankings on the Google search engine... |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-15 09:55 |
| #5 Sigh. It's not Google Inc. doing this linkage, but losers manipulating the way Google ranks information. See here for details: Google Bomb |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2005-09-15 09:50 |
| #4 WHAT A BUNCH OF LOOSERS.Just took them of the PUTER!! |
| Posted by: ARMYGUY 2005-09-15 09:33 |
| #3 GOO-gle. The emphasis is on GOO as in cow pucky. |
| Posted by: John Q. Citizen 2005-09-15 09:24 |
| #2 I cannot win. Yahoo is passing information to the ChiComms and Google is taking a dump on our CIC. What search engine should I use? |
| Posted by: DragonFly 2005-09-15 09:20 |
| #1 If a guy who got elected twice as president of the United States is synonym of failure where do they put say John "I was in Vietnam" Kerry or Howard Aaaaaarrrrrrgh Dean? Walking disasters? |
| Posted by: JFM 2005-09-15 09:20 |