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Whooops!
Is someone at Google is trying to make a political statement ?
If you go to Google and type in “Miserable Failure” as the search criteria then click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button you get…
George Bush’s bio page the the Whitehouse.
No it’s not a statement by Google, but rather Bush bashers taking advantage of the google ranking system. Of course in a way I’ve just contributed to the high ranking of the Bio getting the top ranking for the search phrase “Miserable Failure”. The high ranking is the result of numerous web sites linking to GW’s bio with the term. The trick uses the fact that Google considers web links as a major search ranking factor. With all the links to GW from that term, his Bio page is now the top ranked web page, even though the words “Miserable” and Failure” appear nowhere on the page or in the meta-data.