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Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 86
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 3:57 pm: | 
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Goto Google.com, that wonderful little search engine we all love.
Type this is in - miserable failure
Then hit the Im feeling Lucky button.
Now thats a hoot.
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STRAW'S THE COOLEST
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1531
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 4:04 pm: |
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Nohero LOVES google.
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5808
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 4:12 pm: |
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Heh. Someone at Google must have hacked that link.
Or somehow this site may be why:
http://www.amiserablefailure.com |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2514
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 4:28 pm: |
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Actually, it's an example of how the "Google" approach to ranking works. Google owns Blogger.com, and its searches specifically include weblogs. A lot of weblogs, and other sites, have put links on their page, where clicking on the words "miserable failure" leads to the President's biography.
Like so: miserable failure.
Google ranks web pages automatically, based on whether other web pages link to those pages, and the reason for those links. For sites which the Google system "reads", the ranking system starts to find the top destination page when the phrase "miserable failure" is used.
In short, since computers are, in the end, basically stupid (sorry if that offends anybody reading this), this sort of a diffuse effort winds up "directing" Google to produce this search result.
It's stilll funny, though. Hey, I think I'll do it again: miserable failure. |
mem aka "toots"
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2357
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 4:37 pm: |
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I am not crazy about Bush but that's pretty depressing. I'm sure google will take care of it soon. |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5810
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 4:57 pm: |
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It's not a Google error. Here's the culprit. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2515
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 5:00 pm: |
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Like I said, "It's not a flaw, it's a feature." |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5811
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 5:05 pm: |
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So the point is the more we link to W's bio with the words miserable failure the higher it gets rated on Google search returns for that query. I repeat: the more we link to W's bio with hyperlink miserable failure the higher it goes in Google. |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 457
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 6:41 pm: |
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There are hundreds of these. Google does them all the time for the fun of it.
Try:
Weapons of mass destruction |
Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5812
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 6:45 pm: |
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Google, the company, does not do it for fun. The software algorithm Google uses creates the search results all by its little self. In the case of the WMD, once that joke page was put online, everyone linked to it with the words "weapons of mass destruction" and the search engine recognized it to be the most appropriate page for the phrase. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
Citizen
Username: Casey
Post Number: 330
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 7:35 pm: |
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More evidence of liberal media bias.
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 458
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:46 pm: |
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Dave: when you hit the search button that is true. The "I'm feeling lucky" button is a little diffrent and is sometimes used to draw publicity as in our posts here. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2519
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:53 pm: |
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The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button just brings you directly to the top-ranked result. Using the regular "Google Search" button, gives the same result at the top of the list. |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2520
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:55 pm: |
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Sheesh, I almost forgot -
miserable failure
It just doesn't get old, does it? |
Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 460
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 9:55 pm: |
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Give me a day or two to find the article, it was in "Wired" a year ago.
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Dave Ross
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 5813
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, December 4, 2003 - 10:50 pm: |
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http://www.google.com/help/features.html#lucky |
STRAW'S THE COOLEST
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1533
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 8:20 am: |
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You see people this is exactly the type of nonsense that keeps the "Dumbo"cratic party in it's current state of disgrace. Allow me to explain, my liberal ignorant friends.
You see, here we have a case where some liberal egg head programmer decides to tamper with the Google search engine all for a big laugh at the expense of the President of the United States.
I for one believe Google needs to find out who committed the foul, and terminate them. I'm sure, that will soon be the case. The problem is the damage has already been done. Liberals don't understand that most Conservatives are low key people who mind their own business. Well, as these constant personal attacks on the President continue, our representation will get louder, and angrier and in the end that's exactly what drives people to the polls.
Enjoy, the Google laugh. You can have it, I'll take the White House, the Senate and House along with the Supreme Court, and California, and New York City..ETC, ETC. ETC.
Like I said, enjoy the laugh...it's all you liberal knuckle heads seem to have left.
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan
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Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2524
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 8:24 am: |
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C'mon, it's a harmless, and relatively simple way for people to amuse themselves.
It's a "people-powered" version of the site created by someone to show up as the first choice in Google when "french military victories" is typed in the search box, and the "Feeling Lucky" key is hit. Instead of an official, outside site, this guy created a fake Google page (at this link), and used other techniques to drive the result he wanted from Google. Actually, I think that if those same techniques were used by a commercial site, Google would correct that; but, that site, and the "miserable failure" search, are just fun.
You're not against fun, are you? |
Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1253
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 8:29 am: |
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Straw... do you even know what you are talking about???
Get one of them sunlamps and bump up your exposure. Right now you seem to have a mighty case of Seasonal Affetive Disorder.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take"
Wayne Gretzky
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Kenney
Citizen
Username: Kenney
Post Number: 154
Registered: 11-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 9:02 am: |
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FROM DRUDGE:
A new shock song from rapper Eminem wishes the president dead, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned...
On the track WE AS AMERICANS, obtained by DRUDGE, the nation's top selling rapper shockingly rants: 'F**k money. I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead. It's never been said, but I set precedents and the standards and they can't stand it... We as Americans. Us as a citizen. We've got to protect ourselves'...
Again, the above came from DRUDGE....
Now that M&M has come out against Bush, I may have to reconsider my support of our middle east policy.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today..FDR..
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth...G.W.
Everyone wants a voice in human freedom. There's a fire burning inside of all us...L.W.
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STRAW'S THE COOLEST
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1534
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 9:11 am: |
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Duncan writes:
"Straw... do you even know what you are talking about???"
I guess the same could be written about you. as a matter of fact, If you don't believe me, ask Dave.
"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1612
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 9:49 am: |
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"...most Conservatives are low key people who mind their own business. Well, as these constant personal attacks on the President continue, our representation will get louder, and angrier and in the end that's exactly what drives people to the polls...
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thevillagepub
Citizen
Username: Thevillagepub
Post Number: 145
Registered: 11-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 10:02 am: |
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Usually people use search engines to look up things that interest them, that they have an affinity for, that they can relate to on a personal level.
I, for one, would never have thought to use a search engine to seek out a miserable failure, but that is just me. Best wishes to those in search of a soul mate.
TheVillagePub |
Robert Lilly
Citizen
Username: Cowboy
Post Number: 168
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 10:25 am: |
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Eminem wishes the president dead. Well isn't that special! Good thing the president that Eminem wishes dead is a Republican, (George Bush), or the "music" industry might actually get upset with this!
There is no such thing as bias in media! |
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 1279
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 12:16 pm: |
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There are two types of people in the world: those who cast people into two types, and those who don't.
Tom Reingold
There is nothing
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mem aka "toots"
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2361
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 12:55 pm: |
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Try typing in:
"cheating in the oval office"
OK you rabid Clinton dysfunctional extremist loonie groupies - come and get me!!!
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STRAW'S THE COOLEST
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1540
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 1:55 pm: |
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"How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
--Ronald Wilson Reagan
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dave23
Citizen
Username: Dave23
Post Number: 105
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 2:00 pm: |
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Robert, when did Eminem record that song? |
Guesswho
Citizen
Username: Guesswho
Post Number: 80
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Friday, December 5, 2003 - 10:38 pm: |
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Secret Service checks Eminem's 'dead president' lyric
Friday, December 5, 2003 Posted: 8:55 PM EST (0155 GMT)
Eminem
NEW YORK (CNN) -- The Secret Service has launched a preliminary investigation to determine if a lyric from rapper Eminem was meant as a threat to President Bush.
The lyric comes from a bootleg Eminem recording -- one of several from the rapper making rounds on the Internet over the past week.
In the song called "We Are American," Eminem sings: "(Expletive) money, I don't rap for dead presidents. I'd rather see the president dead."
Dennis Dennehy, a spokesman for the Grammy- and Academy Award-winning rapper, told CNN the song was not ready for release.
"This was an unfinished song, either lost or stolen," Dennehy said. "There was no determination where, when, how or if it was going to be used."
A Secret Service probe is routine when something that could be construed as a threat to the president is brought to agents' attention.
"Dead presidents" is slang for cash because of the depiction of several presidents on currency.
The reference to seeing the president dead does not specify the president of the United States.
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1617
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 6, 2003 - 12:31 am: |
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"...most Conservatives are low key people who mind their own business. Well, as these constant personal attacks on the President continue, our representation will get louder, and angrier and in the end that's exactly what drives people to the polls... |
STRAW'S THE COOLEST
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 1544
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 6, 2003 - 9:44 am: |
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Tom, I agree with your above quote. 
"We won't always have the strongest military"
--Howard Dean
(Time, April 28, 2003).
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tom
Citizen
Username: Tom
Post Number: 1618
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, December 6, 2003 - 1:39 pm: |
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I'm thinking about making it my signature. It'd be kind of fun, with a different link every time!
"...most Conservatives are low key people who mind their own business. Well, as these constant personal attacks on the President continue, our representation will get louder, and angrier and in the end that's exactly what drives people to the polls..." |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2535
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Sunday, December 7, 2003 - 11:11 pm: |
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More on the issue which started this thread, from Saturday's paper:
quote:Google bombings are created by people who run Web sites and Web logs, or blogs, which allow people to easily post information about particular topics. One person posts an idea for a bombing online, then it spreads like, you might say, Webfire.
The latest Google bombing appears to have spread within a matter of weeks.
It apparently doesn't take much for Google to make the association. At least 826 pages link to the Bush bio but just 32 of those pages include the phrase "miserable failure," according to a Google search.
In previous pranks, tricksters have rigged Google to bring up spoof pages. For instance, after France refused to join the coalition forces fighting Iraq, a Google search for "French military victories" brought up a spoof page that said no documents were found and asked, "Did you mean 'french military defeats.'"
Source: http://www.newsday.com/business/ny-bzgoog1206,0,2339508.story?coll=ny-business-h eadlines
Of course, you heard it here, first ... |
Nohero
Citizen
Username: Nohero
Post Number: 2556
Registered: 10-1999
| | Posted on Friday, December 12, 2003 - 8:25 am: |
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Okay, kids, you can get in on the "ground floor" of this one ...
quote:Unelectable
George Bush is unelectable. That's our opinion and we're sticking to it. Pass it on. So that when people go to google and search for "unelectable," guess what will come up. It's not there yet, but remember " miserable failure "--it doesn't take long.
From the website TalkLeft. |
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