Miserable Failure? Check out who tops the list!

[Melora]

Go to Google.com and type in "Miserable Failure" and look whose site comes up on the top of the list....

 

[Lanshark]

I'll take a wild guess that you're a Democrat

 

[momof2inPA]

HaHaHa. Good one.

 

[phamton]

It's a Google bomb and explained on snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

The top site returned by a Google search on the phrase "miserable failure" has been the biography of President George W. Bush from the White House web site.

How did this come about, especially since the phrase "miserable failure" appears nowhere in the President's biography? It was the result of a "Google bombing" project organized by George Johnston back at the end of October 2003, in which he used his blog to urge others to include links connecting the phrase "miserable failure" (a term used prominently by Democratic hopeful Dick Gephardt) with the President's biography in their own web sites and blogs. According to Mr. Johnston's progress report, by the last week of November 2003 the Bush biography was the #2 result on Google for "miserable failure," and — after more and more netizens implemented the same link on their sites and urged others to do the same — it reached the top spot soon afterward.

 

[DisneyMagicTravis]

I couldn't agree more!

 

[Dan Murphy]

Originally posted by phamton
It's a Google bomb and explained on snopes.com:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

Thahks for the heads up, phamton.

 

[Melora]

Thanks for the explanation phamton! I was going to post that later this evening if anyone was interested in how that happened. I read about it in my Newsweek that just arrived today.