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I think it's rather classless, but politicians have long been the punchlines of classless jokes.
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...is this a joke that someone at Google is pulling? Cause it's definitely the official www.whitehouse.gov site.
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It's definitely not a real link. It's a joke someone is pulling. I figured Google had to be in on it, or else it wouldn't stay long enough to spread through the internet.
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The terms "miserable" and "failure" don't show up anywhere on the page identified, so it's not a legitimate search result. Just mean.
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I don't think its mean, but I also think its obviously untrue. I mean, he's President, and you may not like what he does, but he's been fairly successful at doing it. There are many true things that could hurt, but I don't see this as being one of them.
So, it's funny, because it's like wishful thinking. I figure it would be less funny if it linked to, say, the home page of some schmoe who really was the above. That would be sad. This is like the peanut gallery.
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What was that quote about lying to a black man being worse than lying to a white man? What about attacking a person who can't defend himself in the forum where he is being attacked?
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I am pretty sure it is the real whitehouse page. It is not the fact that miserable failure is not in the page anywhere that causes it to be ranked that way. It being up there has things to do with Google's page rank algorithm thingie.
I think fugu is right about the google bomb thing. Check this link. It is good for a chuckle.
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I'm not saying they don't have the right to do it. Just something about being ten times worse.
Ridiculously, I thought of Google, at least as a search engine, as being "Fair And Balanced." I just hate being disillusioned.
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Having read the "google bomb" link provided (thank you, Lerris), I no longer disavow Google, and will continue to use it as my search engine. This is still a classless thing to do, though. Not as destructive as a virus or worm, but just as insidious.
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Google has no more to do with this than Microsoft has to do with the email viruses that keep surfacsing. Someone figured out a way to manipulate the sytstem. That is all.
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Yeah, it does look like Google bombing -- see the links that come up for the rest of the top 10? And even if you search for "miserable failure -bush" you get a fair number of tangentially related stuff.
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