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Originally Posted by Fox
The amazing part is that the word "failure" doesn't even show up anywhere on that website.
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It doesn't have to. It's what is called
google bombing.
Snopes says...
It was the result of a "Google bombing" project organized by George Johnston back at the end of October 2003, in which he used his blog to urge others to include links connecting the phrase "miserable failure" (a term used prominently by Democratic hopeful Dick Gephardt) with the President's biography in their own web sites and blogs:
Let's get everyone to link to
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html with the words "Miserable Failure." Our goal is to make Shrubya the top google pick.
It's fun, it's easy just <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html">Miserable Failure</a> in your favorite web page will look like Miserable Failure
According to Mr. Johnston's progress report, by the last week of November 2003 the Bush biography was the #2 result on Google for "miserable failure," and — after more and more netizens implemented the same link on their sites and urged others to do the same — it reached the top spot soon afterward. (A #1 ranking at Google brings the added bonus of returning the targeted site when users select the search engine's "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.)