Monday, 8 December 2003

Australia trails by 86 on first innings - www.smh.com.au

India had a lead of 86 runs over Australia after being dismissed for 409 in its first innings on the fifth morning of the first cricket Test at the Gabba.

It's the first time in 23 Tests that Australia has conceded a first innings deficit going back to the third Test against New Zealand in Perth two years ago. [more]

[listening to: Christmas Day Australia Way - Angry Anderson ]
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Bush's bio gets giggles on Google - www.smh.com.au

A search for the phrase "miserable failure" on the search engine Google brings up the biography of the US President, George Bush, on the White House website. It is one of the more prominent examples of search-engine manipulation.

The phrase does not appear in the biography. But computer users rigged the results from the popular search engine by posting the phrase on web pages that linked straight to the biography - a technique called Google bombing.

[listening to: The Golden Kangaroo - John Williamson ]
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