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November 18, 2005BORed: The Google Never LiesBy Matt HardigreeI'm not one to get so excited about claiming that President Bush is the worst president ever, because he's the only president we've got right now (well, him and Dick Cheney). Therefore, I was a bit surprised when I googled: the worst president and ended up with the official White House biography of George Bush. Perhaps google can confirm what we all suspect... Posted by Matt Hardigree at November 18, 2005 03:25 PM | TrackBackComments
Your feeble attempt at humor is a reflection of your own lack of character. I googled "the worst President," but I found that only the key word "President" was highlighted-- not the whole phrase "the worst President." Since you're so stupid that you (no doubt) wake up in a new world every day, I will explain. The fact that the word "President" was highlighted indicates that the Google search engine used the key word "President" to produce the search result "the official White House biography of George Bush." So, this is just another example of a typical, simple-minded, lying "Democrat," Matt Hardigree, spinning the truth to fit his own personal political agenda. You may now respond by calling me a "fascist," or hurling profanities at me in typical liberal "Democrat" fashion. Posted by: Hollis Manly at November 18, 2005 04:13 PMI'll tell you what. Instead of hurling invective, I'll just ask you to google the word "failure." Posted by: dward at November 18, 2005 04:20 PMHa, good one dward. To be fair, troll, it searches WORST PRESIDENT and still comes up with Bush. As does failure. For the purpose of full disclosure I must admit that when searching "masturbatory gestures" my name comes up. Posted by: matth at November 18, 2005 04:28 PMalso, check out what happens when you google: "failure" Posted by: patrick at November 18, 2005 04:29 PMI took your challenge, and Googled "failure." I got the search result that you knew I would get "the official White House biography of George Bush." I also clicked on the heading in the upper right hand side of the page titled "Why these results?" This is how Google explains the search result: Googler insights into product and technology news and our culture. Googlebombing 'failure' Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products 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. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns. "Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. 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. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission." Apparently, you are another simple-minded liberal "Democrat" prankster with too much time on your hands! Why don't you go outside and play in the rush-hour traffic like a good liberal? Posted by: Hollis Manly at November 18, 2005 04:37 PMHollis, Hollis, Hollis. He didn't lie. He Googled "the worst president" (sans quotes), and Bush's bio is the first result. Go ahead. Try it. He's not lying. He never said "all of the words of my Google search are highlighted," which is what you claim. Take your Straw Men elsewhere, please. Posted by: Fine Bottled Water at November 18, 2005 04:38 PMAww, Hollis just learned about Google-bombing. He's learnin'! Posted by: Fine Bottled Water at November 18, 2005 04:41 PMOMG! Michael Moore's site is the second result when you Google "failure." Clearly that's the result of another simple-minded liberal "Democrat" prankster with too much time on his hands! Posted by: Fine Bottled Water at November 18, 2005 04:43 PMIn case you BORLibbers forgot to notice, the second Google entry for "failure" will take you to Michael Moore's Web site. So much for "reporting the facts." And besides, did you all forget that Jimah Carter, who likes to go on CNN and blast President Bush, only served one term and had the lowest approval rating of any president? And that Bill Clinton, your other hero, was disbarred by the Arkansas Bar Association? Shit, he's right. Clinton was disbarred. Carter was unpopular. Bush is the best president ever. Posted by: Fine Bottled Water at November 18, 2005 04:52 PMIs it impossible for anyone to take a joke anymore? Posted by: Phillip Martin at November 18, 2005 05:02 PMYeah they must not understand that instead of writing a blatent entry like I did to further encourage an existing googlebomb, Matt used "humor" and "subtlety" so as to not make it so obvious. Posted by: Karl-T at November 18, 2005 05:54 PMI can't help it if Hollis Manly has a feeble mind and if all Hollis Manly can do is create feeble arguements. Hollis Manly makes feeble attempts and attacks other's character like Rove. Wouldn't it be a shame if all people thought when they heard Hollis Manly was "feeble"? Posted by: Karl-T at November 18, 2005 06:09 PMHey Trey, I love how it's always liberal and Kool-Aid when it's very much a Republican thing. Kool-Aid, made by Kraft, owned by Phillip Morris, owned by Altria gives almost 80% of it's donations to Republicans. And look where some of that money ended up? Americans for a Republican Majority (ARM) $100,000 But at least Trey isn't Hollis Manly. Posted by: Karl-T at November 18, 2005 06:16 PMOMG, blew Kool Aid out my nose! LOL Thanks for the laugh Karl, this is the best thing I have read all day! :) Posted by: Michelle H. at November 18, 2005 10:34 PMok, ok, I'll admit I drink Kool Aid too..but it still hasn't turned me liberal...lol i googled "teh suck" expecting it to turn up the same thing, but i only got the urban dictionary. Posted by: Sal D at November 19, 2005 08:13 PMTry googling "miserable failure". Posted by: Andrea Meyer at November 20, 2005 04:04 PMJust figured I would let y'all know that the phrase "drinking the Kool-aid" is metaphor for blindly following an ideology. It dates back to the seventies when an american cult established a supposedley "utopian" society called jonestown in guyana (south america). After a while there, there was a mass murder-suicide in which everyone drank poison kool-aid and died. It is believed that the people were so loyal to the cause that they drank the kool-aid even after watching others die from it. Thus "drinking the kool-aid" means blindly following an ideology or philosophy even to one's own demise. In today's political realm it can be applied to both those on the right or the left who don't think freely. Here's a link to wikipedia's page on jonestown And we all learned something from the evil conservative! Posted by: Tony McDonald at November 27, 2005 12:39 AMPost a comment
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