Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 06:44:25 -0500
From: Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: "miserable failure"
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

ronkean at juno.com wrote:

> Googling "miserable failure"  turns up
>
> Biography of President George W. Bush

It's called "Google bombing.  Here's how it's done:
<http://www.iht.com/articles/120652.html>

I just checked it and GWB is no longer the top result.  Michael Moore
<http://www.michaelmoore.com/> has that honor.

According to one source (Google doesn't publicise their search
algorithms) it takes as little as 32 Web links to get top billing for a
phrase like that.

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Steve Smith                                           sgs at aginc.net
Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make sense."