__/ [Roy Schestowitz] on Saturday 17 September 2005 03:39 \__
> __/ [Paul N Burke] on Saturday 17 September 2005 03:31 \__
>
>> On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 03:25:22 +0100, Roy Schestowitz
>> <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>>__/ [Logician] on Friday 16 September 2005 11:42 \__
>>>
>>>> enter "failure" into google.com and see Bush's official site as #1.
>>>
>>>An announcement/clarification has just come from Google:
>>>
>>>http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html
>>>
>>>Maybe last night, but very recently anyway...
>>>
>>>"We've (Google) received some complaints recently from users who assume
>>>that this reflects a political bias on our part."
>>>
>>>Roy
>>
>> LMAO
>>
>> I wonder who complained. ......... May be his wife.
>> I cannot see why they should complain. Occasionally the truth hurts.
>> Get over it. :)
>>
>> Thanks for sharing that Roy
>> plh
>> Paul
>
> I think they had some precedence on their side. From what I can recall,
> Google used some humour when searching for the term "weapons of mass
> destruction". I suspect it wasn't a case of Googlebombing either. I can
> chase an E-mail that was sent to me on the subject (about 2 years ago) and
> tell you what that was about. Maybe no results were returned (i.e.
> "Nothing found"), but I'm not sure.
Okay, I couldn't help writing about it:
http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/09/17/googlebombing/
I love that picture!
Roy
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