OF GOOGLEBOMBS AND BLOGWARS

Have you heard about the recent “Googlebombing” which resulted in associating the search phrase “miserable failure” with the presidency of George W. Bush? The story first appeared on the NY Times website and details how one leftist blogger managed to hyperlink the term “miserable failure” to the White House’s official GWB biography page. Apparently, this link caught on among the left wing whackos, and began showing up in enough blogs to cause a simple Google search of the words “miserable failure” to link you directly to the president’s bio.

Not to be outdone, some of the blogs here on the right have launched a counter-attack to place the term miserable failure in its more fitting historical perspective. The Daily Pundit offers the best scoop on the whole story.

IMO, this whole mess is getting a little surreal. It demonstrates very clearly that 1. We all have become a little too dependant on Google for our information these days. 2. The power of blogging as a medium is here to stay, for better or for worse and 3. The general public believes what it reads for the most part, which can be a dangerous thing if you consider that history can be re-written on the Internet. Don’t believe me? What if this became widely accepted as a result of a Googlebomb? benevolent leader

Comments

[Yan]

Hey. I put that on my blog! I guess I am a left wing whacko!!! You are right. I am actually.

Yan

[Jason]

Saw you checked out my site so I checked out yours also. I love the idea of taking back miserable failure and putting it back on Jimmy Carter. He was probably the biggest failure of a president ever! Let the Google Wars begin.