Monday, 8 December 2003
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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