Failure Won’t Ever Totally Disappear From Google

Failure Won’t Ever Totally Disappear From Google

Two words commonly associated with George W Bush are miserable failure, even without the former president owning the top listing on search engine results pages for more than two years. But Google diffused the Google bomb in January 2007 that firmly established "W" in just what most of the country believed his rightful place after the 2008 election.

Miserable failure George W. Bush

For two years, when Google users typed "miserable failure" for their search term, George W. Bush was instant cash at the top of the list, first for his biography and later for images. After previous democratic Missouri congressman Dick Gephardt applied the term to the Bush administration, pranksters built the miserable failure scheme, known as the Google bomb. Bush supporters eventually retaliated by Google-bombing Jimmy Carter, Hillary Clinton and uber-liberal Michael Moore as miserable failures.

Results today with miserable failure

If you were to search failure today, you would get results such as a magazine called failuremag.com or a Wikipedia entry about a defunct rock band named Failure. George W. Bush nevertheless shows up in a Google image search for miserable failure, but Google has effectively prevented miserable failure and any other Google bombs from exploding on the web. Individuals will still need debt consolidation with miserable failures with their credit cards.

No more miserable failure

the miserable failure Google bomb was possible because before 2007, Google’s search rank algorithm ranked pages higher based on the online websites linked to that page using similar anchor text. When Google diffused the miserable failure Google bomb in 2007, searchengineland.com asked Google spam killer Matt Cutts how they did it. He stated that it was done automatically with no human intervention. “It’s totally algorithmic,” he said, “We’re not going to claim it’s 100 percent perfect.”

Miserable failure is nevertheless applied

The term miserable failure is timeless. When miserable failure appears in Google searches now, it turns up debt management, public programs, politicians (both foreign and domestic), and athletes. When Google diffused the George W. Bush miserable failure bomb, it managed to figure out how to stop the pranks. There always seems to be room for commentary on miserable failures.

Sources

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