failure

[Senior]

Google this word, just do it.

[decypher]

hilarious!

[Roxxie]

hahaha~ omg...thats pretty sad for him LoL

[Senior]

Dubya is number one but Michael Moore is close on his heels.

[sidekick]

that's gotta be a practical joke from the good people of google.

[Senior]

Originally Posted by Sidekick

that's gotta be a practical joke from the good people of google.

Maybe, but's it's actually possible that it's just real. Net geeks, how do search engines work? Could this be legit?

After all GW is very often associated with failure, and it is his real web site not a parody.

[mapleleaf4ever]

Ohhhhhhh damn.

[sidekick]

Originally Posted by Senior

After all GW is very often associated with failure, and it is his real web site not a parody.

that's exactly why i would think that it's a practical joke by the people at google. when you search a word it brings up the sites most related to that word. like if you searched 'asian girl tits' it would bring up the sites most related to asian girl tits...but there is no mention on that page of george bush being a failure. that's why the google people would have had to rig it for that page to come up.

[Senior]

[Leviathan]

its called "google bombing"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

[-ff-]

Originally Posted by Leviathan

its called "google bombing"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

Shit, you beat me to it

[LeeBrat]

lol, wow, thats...funny :p

[ebbomega]

For best comedic results, click "I'm Feeling Lucky!"

My favourite is putting in:
french military victories

And clicking I Feel Lucky. Go ahead. Do it.

[fable]

Google Won't Remove "Failure" Link To Bush Sept. 19, 2005
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Google says it won't manually manipulate its search results, even when pranksters push unwarranted links to the top of the results list with so-called "googlebombing" tactics.
By Gregg Keizer
TechWeb News


Google says it won't manually manipulate its search results, even when pranksters push unwarranted links to the top of the results list with so-called "googlebombing" tactics.

The most recent embarrassment for Google? Type "failure" into the Google search field. The number one result: President George W. Bush's official bio hosted by the White House Web site. "We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part," wrote Marissa Mayer, Google's director of consumer products on the company's blog. "In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up."

Actually, googlebombing Bush is nothing new. In late 2003, for instance, 30 or so sites with the phrase "miserable failure" linked to the same bio page; earlier that year, another googlebomb led searches for the phrase "weapons of mass destruction" to a joke page that read "The weapons you are looking for are currently unavailable. The country might be experiencing technical difficulties, or you may need to adjust your weapons inspector mandate." "Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service," said Google's Mayer. Google's not the only search service to be hit. Searches on Yahoo and Ask Jeeves using the words "miserable failure" return the same Bush bio in the first spot, while "failure" typed into MSN's search puts the bio as the number two result.