After just over two years, Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn’t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush.
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Google Kills Bush’s Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs is my article from January 2007 that covers the history of how it came to be that for many years, a search for miserable failure on Google would bring up the official George W. Bush biography.
searchengineland.com/bush-fix-your-miserable-failure-le... searchengineland.com/bush-fix-your-miserable-failure-legacy-16036
Why is the phrase 'miserable failure' tied to President Bush's biography in Google? ... If you go to Google.com and type in the phrase "miserable failure" without the quotes, then hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button, it brings up the website of President Bush! Don't know what category this goes in, but it's true!
www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp
Yet Another Web Site, Miserable Failure ... Filed under: Politics, Stupid Net Tricks, Waffle Irons - Miserable Failure — jac @ May 25, 2004 - 9:33 am...
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Web users manipulate a popular search engine so an unflattering description leads to the president's page. ... Web users entering the words "miserable failure" into the popular search engine are directed to the biography of the president on the White House website.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm
Searching for "miserable failure,” for example, produces the official White House Web site of President Bush. ... The attack was a miserable failure, from the enemy's point of view -- over 45,000 VC died, and the Vietnamese declined to give up their democratic government.
miserable-failure.blogspot.com/ miserable-failure.blogspot.com/
Political Google bombs in the 2004 U.S. Presidential election - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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During the 2004 U.S. presidential election, Google bombs were used to further various political agendas. Two of the first were the "miserable failure" Google bomb linked to George W. Bush's White Hous...
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If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part.
googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.h... googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
Will Bush be re-elected? Only if voters wittingly ignore his long list of failures while in office ... Can a "miserable failure" of a president win re-election? Bush's victory would testify to a civic failure more dangerous to the American future than any policies implemented or continued during a second Bush term.
www.theatlantic.com/unbound/polipro/pp2003-09-24.htm
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