[funsec] Google Won't Remove "Failure" Link To Bush

[Chris Buechler]

at least I bet it's some consolation to Bush fans that Michael Moore is 
running a close 2nd place on "failure".  :)


Josh Daymont wrote:

>...waiting for an all out political debate to ensue on the list....
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Daniel [mailto:dso at moosoft.com]
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 3:34 PM
>To: 'Fergie (Paul Ferguson)'; funsec at linuxbox.org
>Subject: RE: [funsec] Google Won't Remove "Failure" Link To Bush
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>Besides, why change it if it is accurate ;)
>
>Daniel
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>MooSoft Development Inc
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org [mailto:funsec-bounces at linuxbox.org] On
>Behalf Of Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
>Sent: Monday, September 19, 2005 1:02 PM
>To: funsec at linuxbox.org
>Subject: [funsec] Google Won't Remove "Failure" Link To Bush
>
>Although not related to security, it _is_ hilarious. ;-)
>
>Via TechWeb News:
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>[snip]
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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.
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>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."
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>[snip]
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>http://www.techweb.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=170704578
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>- ferg
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