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- dreaz, on 10/12/2007, -38/+284But in our hearts, Bush will always be a miserable failure.
- JJBagoose, on 10/12/2007, -28/+248Title Marked as "Inaccurate"
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -26/+137This should be subtitled with "According to Google"....because he's still a miserable failure according to reality
- k0sty, on 10/12/2007, -21/+66that's only because (as colbert reminds us) "reality has a well established liberal bias"
- sfacets, on 10/12/2007, -14/+49He'll always be a miserable failure to me... like Pluto will always be a planet.
- wqwert, on 10/12/2007, -2/+35at least Creed is still the worst band in the world
http://www.google.com/search?q=worst+band+in+the+world&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a - JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -6/+35it was funny as hell but at least when you google "waffles" john kerry doesn't come up anymore either.
- MadScientist420, on 10/12/2007, -8/+26Damn it Google, the change got rid of all kinds of ***** like that...
French Military Victories no longer returns "Did you mean "French Military Defeats"?"
-1 cool points Google. - Ellsass, on 11/05/2008, -5/+21As much as I might agree with those sentiments, you have to take into consideration that blogs and online journalism have been much more prominent during Bush's presidency than anyone else's, so there are likely to be more articles showing up with this name. You don't see too many "Herbert Hoover is the worst president ever" articles on the web. I (regretfully) imagine that a future president will also show up in the first ten search results for that phrase.
- d7415, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Am I the only one tempted to mark as "inaccurate"?
- GawtMilk, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13EDIT
I made you an HTML example but then digg eated it :'( - saska, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I keep trying to digg the story, but the button is right next to the title, and I just can't do it.
- ajb2015, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm
Bush is no longer a miserable failure, but an article about him being a miserable failure is. - parker1105, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Well good for you.
- BigW, on 10/12/2007, -22/+29@tub3rcul0s1s
You should have gotten in trouble for showing this to a client. Political (and religious) comments and statments have no business in interactions with customers. Professionalism dictates that you show deference to any views your customer may have. In the simplest case this means "don't talk about it at all".
It truly amazes me how many people just assume that everyone has the same views or tastes when it comes to basing President Bush. In your case your customer may have voted for Bush twice, they may also hate Bush, but be really offended by the crass nature of political discourse on the web. - rlray216, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Nice article - very well thought out. (Not that I should be surprised by that, but I wasn't quite sure how much you could actually write about the "miserable failure" Google bomb. Apparently you can write quite a bit about it though.
- catullus13, on 10/12/2007, -9/+15Try searching on "worst president ever" and see what happens.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Mr. Cheney, is that you?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+14OriginalLucid
>Carter presidency, and they will tell you about double digit inflation, interest rates, and unemployment. Not to mention his capitulation to the Iranian extremists that has a lot to do with the mess in the Middle East right now.
Actually double digit inflation began at least three years before Carter even became president, ( http://inflationdata.com/inflation/Inflation_Rate/HistoricalInflation.aspx?dsInflation_currentPage=2 ), and so he raised interest rates to help solve that, which he did. As for Unemployment you can see that that it basically ended where it started under his tenure as you can see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Us_unemployment_rates_1950_2005.png and as for his capitulation for Iranian extremists, he got the hostages released and they were released during the inauguration of Reagan who hadn't even taken office yet.
So Carter was at worst a mediocre president. He didn't start a major war, he didn't get anyone killed, he didn't ignore memos protecting the country due to a drug and alcohol fueled daze losing two towers. He didn't offend entire European nations and alienate our allies. He never once tried to inappropriately massage the back of the German chancellor. He never was caught on film writing a note to his secretary of state asking if he could go to the bathroom.
And frankly, I want to slap anyone who compares any president ever against Bush and tries to say that Bush has been in any way competent. Bush is, bar none, the finest fecal product that the US has ever produced and if he had been in any other country he would have been hung for incompetence long ago along with his loser followers.
http://mortgage-x.com/general/indexes/prime.asp - omnithought, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Sorry, headline is still inaccurate. ;)
- Sc5i, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7Thank goodness the new algorithm didn't change the results for "French Military Victories" I always get a kick out of that search.
I hope the French are good sports about it. - pt4117, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Just do a search for best president ever, and you'll see that Google isn't always right.
- LocalScope, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Well if mister poll says so then its settled.
- MadScientist420, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6But it did!!!! Have you tried it?
- RyeBrye, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3@MadScientist420
It DIDN'T change the behavior of that result. You keep insisting that it would automatically redirect you to that "did you mean?" page - but it NEVER did that. NEVER EVER EVER EVER EVER. Can you get that through your head? I wouldn't yell so loudly, but despite several people correcting you on it above, you STILL seem to think that prior to this update, a google-bombed site would automatically load when someone hit search.
Google searching will NEVER automatically redirect you to a different site unless you hit the "I'm feeling lucky button." If you click the "I'm feeling lucky button" now - it will bring you to that page, just like it will bring you to the first search result of any query. (That's what they "lucky" button always does.) - instntkrma, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Groucho Marx
- growler1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You cyber-terrorists with your google bombs. You should all be thrown in cyber-gitmo. With cyber dogs...or cyber-bees. Or cyber-dogs with cyber-bees in their mouths.
/sarcasm/google bomb fan. - onlyalad, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Perhaps the real problem is that none of the truly great people of today are stupid enough to ever want to be president.
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3phew, "what is the answer to life the universe and everything" still works.
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7Your name should be "flatulence" - that would be far more fitting.
- Buelldozer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You are quite probably correct.
As H.G. Wells said "I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member."
The truth is that most decent, honorable, and intelligent people would have NO desire to be President. Getting the job is a long road of headaches, lost private life, and pandering for donations. Once you get there you are reviled by at least half of the country, and you have far less power than you would think.
Why would anyone from "the best and brightest" WANT the job? They only do if they want money or power. - Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3you forgot the Cyber-waterboarding
- ironymonkey, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6ah the end of an era. well at least we have the memories. oh and $8,682,315,544,364 in national debt. and counting.
- aaronm67, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No, it never worked either way. It's always been the "I'm Feeling Lucky" page...they didn't change anything about it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Originallucid:
>Just like in Somalia, if you don't send your soldiers out with the equipment they need, bad ***** is going to happen.
I am fascinated to hear what equipment you think they were short. Naturally you didn't elucidate.
>Ignore 9/11? Only Clinton/Clark/Berger are guilty of that.
Oh, of course. They ignored 9/11 before it ever happened, such as ignoring the memo of January stating that there was an "urgent need" for a principles meeting about Osama. Oh wait... no, that was Bush and Rice. He went on vacation, Rice went shoe shopping. For nine months. I'm afraid your dishonesty to yourself doesn't transfer onto others -- that is, I'm not going to be dishonest to myself just because you want to be dishonest to yourself.
>But Carter and Democrat Senator Church are responsible for gutting the CIA of any real spooks.
And yet our "gutted" military and "gutted" intelligence services won in Bosnia.
>And one more thing...whenever you feel like slapping some one, let me know where to meet you. Better pack a lunch though.
You're a pansy, who can't stand that your national turd is being attacked, rightly, for being horrible. As I said, you and he would be hung in any other country. The fact that you and he haven't been is a testament to how the country tolerates failures. - foxtyke, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That made me laugh so hard that I spit my drink all over my monitor... LOL
- SadPanda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Miserable Failure in google's "Im feeling lucky" (first link on what would be the results page) now shows this - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm ironically enough...
- nypix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The entire political process in the USA is a failure with corporations having politicians in their back pocket.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You can take the miserable failure out of google, but only January 20th 2009 will take the miserable failure out of the White House
- adb44, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For anyone who cares, the search "French military victories" does still return the "French military defeats" page. You just have to hit "I'm feeling lucky" because the page is a spoof made to look like Google, but actually hosted on albinoblacksheep.
It's the same way it always worked.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=french+military+victories&btnG=Google+Search
I'm-feeling-lucky nets you
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/victories.html - kholburn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2But nearly every link on the search page now is about the google bomb and George Bush being linked to "miserable failure".
- Asdfglpwglion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=french+military+victories&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&meta=
Still works.
Only for some reason, digg doesn't like the link. - nfvs, on 08/30/2008, -0/+2http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=french+military+victories&btnI=I%27m+Feeling+Lucky&meta=
See the difference there? - CapeKid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2In a related story, "worst band in the world" still creed. I guess that wasn't a googlebomb...just fact.
- orian76, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Impeachment, Impeachment, Impeachment and that vice president too!
- Jusstin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Aw man, I loved showing that to people!! :( Ah well, luckily it's one of those commonly known facts that do not require proof from Google!
- Klaumbaz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Dug down for innacurate. He's still a miserable failure.
- habfan29, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1...So tubgirl it is then?
- DarkAlchemist, on 04/12/2008, -0/+1I TAKE IT BACK!
- Wootery, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1iirc, either would work.
(It'd be one of the top few links, anyway.) -
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