I just did a search for "miserable failure" and sure enough whitehouse.gove comes up first. According to the following editorial this is due to a battle between some liberals and conservatives. That's fine let them have their fun, but if AOL steps in and removes whitehouse.org from the search results and leaves the links to democrats sites it is unfair censorship in my opinion. If anybody here uses the AOL search engine could you do that search and see if they still have whitehouse.org censored from the results. If I was an AOL user I would write them an email asking them how they defend this action.
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This Google Bombing story is a couple of weeks old, but it's worth noting. For those of you who are unfamiliar with "Google Bombing," it has been defined as "Setting up a large number of Web pages with links that point to a specific Web site so that the site will appear near the top of a Google search when users enter the link text." This means that if a lot of people publish the words, say, "miserable failure" on their websites, and link those words to, say, the biography of George W. Bush on the White House website, when you type the words "miserable failure" into the Google search engine, George W. Bush's biography will appear at the top of the list. Funny, huh? And this is exactly what's been going on over the last couple of months. Intrepid liberal bloggers, website owners, and discussion board members have planted enough "miserable failure" links across the web to get George W. Bush to the top of the list. But in retaliation, right-wingers have been linking the words "miserable failure" to the websites of Hillary Clinton, Jimmy Carter, and Michael Moore, and the four sites have been battling it out for Google's top spot for a while now. So what does AOL have to do with this? Well, AOL uses Google technology for their search function, and apparently they don't like Our Great Leader being called a miserable failure. So - you guessed it - they've removed the listing. But surprise, surprise, the listings for Clinton, Carter, and Moore are - you guessed it again - still there. Which basically proves that AOL are - yes, you guessed it a third time! - a bunch of Republican-pandering, Bush-bootlicking idiots.
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google search on "miserable failure"
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