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Type in "waf*fles" (without the *) in Google and see what you get.
Apparantly, there was a recent push that got Bush's site up to number 9, but he seems to have fallen off the first two pages.
Although I find this particular one amusing, this one does give me a credible platform to say that I find Google-bombing to be very immature. I even modified the link word so I wouldn't contribute to this one. Because of the way bloggers are cross-linked and posted, a relatively few people can totally screw with a search engine.
The problem is, once Google-bombing starts, the only response is more Google-bombing (see the bombing recently done to sink a hate group who had taken over the word "Jew"). A system that can be gamed so easily is rapidly going to become unreliable.
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I think you are totally right about this, Dag. The bloggers are "killing the golden goose" by google-bombing. Of course, commercial interests do it as well. Try to find a soy milk recipe using google. It's just somewhat expected of commercial websites. I'm not sure whether bloggers really want to destroy google's credibility or not. I imagine many of them are aligned with the Civil Society Institute.
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google bombs can be amusing, I find "french military victories" to be funny.
"miserable failure" has Bush and Carter at the top, Michael Moore is right under them (he used to be at # 1).
Google should tweak things so it takes a larger number of people to mess with things. It doesn't bother me as much when people do it as jokes, but if companies started using a small number of bloggers to bump their product up with certain search terms, it could be problematic (or mess with the results of their competitors).
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I'm pretty (not terribly) sure that Luna (sparkgirls.com) started that to be snarky about Jew, when it was a big thing a while ago. Jew was all over LJ, and she said, "Well, waffle."
She could have, of course, gotten it from a source that I'm unaware of. I didn't ask.
(eta: I meant google bombing it. I have no idea why waffles is sucha huge poli term.)
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Lee Stranahan - Roscoe's Chicken 'n Waffles PageTHE BEST WAFFLES IN THE WORLD!!!! Okay, a lot of people find the ideas of Chicken and Waffles on the same plate odd. I used to find it odd, but I like odd. ... users.aol.com/stranahan/roscoes.htm - 7k - May 4, 2004 - Cached - Similar pages
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USATODAY.com - Kerry gets served up with 'waffles'... t like the Democratic presidential candidate are trying to make his campaign Web site, johnkerry.com, the first answer to a search of the word waffles on Google ... www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/nation/ president/2004-04-11-kerry-
Of course, moveon.org's ad to the right is interesting.
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What do you mean? John Kerry is the first result. I'm assuming that's the result for waffles, since that's exactly what I got.
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