General @ Friday September 09, 2005 10:01 am by WunderKraut
And I actually like using Google. I may have to re-think that.
From Chris over at The Jawa Report, use Google to search for the word “failure”:
That’s right! When you search for the word failure President Bush’s biography is the first page that is listed in the Google search engine result page. Not only that Michael Moore’s web site is listed number two for the search term, “failure”.
Nice real nice. Har Har Har! You guys crack me up. I wonder if Clinton’s biography turns up when you search for “intern” or “philanderer”?
Nope, did not think so. I bet the Google programmers are the hit of the cocktail circuit. And they say that Conservatives are mean spirited.
Great, now I am too pissed off to work.
10 Responses to “This Should Not Surprise Me, But…”
Work?
Yeah, I know….hard to believe isn’t it?
No. I mean, what is it?
It’s what you do to make money. But that’s not important right now.
I thought that was what the computer, scanner and high-quality color laser printer was for. Hmm.
I don’t think you can hate on Google for this. The problem is that (as I remember it) they try to move the most popular results upward, to save their customers time. It’s not a concerted effort on their part to twit W, it’s a concerted (and successful) effort on Mikey Moore’s part to drive up his traffic and linkage, and thus show up higher on Google’s listings.
For example, Google “fat idiot” and, not surprisingly, Al Franken’s book comes up one and two (it is the title) – but the third hit is “Michael Moore is a big fat idiot,” and the first page also has hits for Roger Ebert (poor guy), Judge Thomas Jackson (involved with the Microsoft case), and a short film about, of all people, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.
(And BTW, I love the live preview feature!)
Yeah, I know, but it still smells a little fishy.
Yes, I to like the live preview. It sure makes it easier to see if all your links are working!
Yeppers. The live preview thing is snappy. Sure wish I actually had something to do today.
Nightfly,
Neither Bush’s biography nor Michael Moore’s site mention the word failure, period.
That’s not even a logical argument you make.
Funny, Chris, it made plenty of sense to me – a lot of people calling W “failure” means that, when searching for that term, Google returns pages about him high up. Their own pages don’t have to say the word at all.
(I see now, re-reading my original comment, that I didn’t make it clear enough – it’s what other people are saying, not what the site says about itself.)
Yes, it could be done better; it only measures what the loudest and possibly least-hinged people are saying about one. But there it is. I don’t think it’s malice on Google’s part, lefties though they may be.