OT: google it

[ron at bunch.org (ron@bunch.org)]

I'm always interested in accurate criticisms of GW and would like to hear 
yours.
I'm, especially interested in how he's "trashed this country".

At 09:34 PM 1/11/04 -0500, Marc Getty wrote:

>While I won't argue the political points on the list (I completely
>disagree with you, in 3 years W has trashed the country, contact me
>off list if you care to discuss), I will argue the technical details
>of Google.
>
>Note that this is *NOT* a bug in Google, nor is Google making a
>political statement! Someone out there has a ton of web pages with the
>link text "miserable failure" set to
>www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html. A code sample of this is:
>
><A HREF="http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html";>miserable
>failure</A>
>
>Google merely adds this to it's database. If we all got together and
>each linked "rice killer" to scirocco.org Google would point to
>scirocco.org rather then rice.edu. What is more likely is that someone
>created a script that built 100 sites with 10000 pages on each that
>point to whitehouse.gov. Google's search results are getting more
>muddled with folks doing similar Google tricks.
>
>This is nothing new, I've seen this since mid 2000.
>
>-Marc
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Dave Ewing
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 9:09 PM
>To: Scirocco-L@Scirocco.Org
>Subject: RE: google it
>
>
>Another company to Boycott.  Sure is a shame that people and
>businesses don't understand what he's done for us.  Oh well, I guess
>we all bite the hand that feeds us once in a while.
>
>Dave
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org
>[mailto:scirocco-l-bounces@scirocco.org]On Behalf Of Dan Smith
>Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 3:03 PM
>To: scirocco-l@scirocco.org
>Subject: google it
>
>
>Go to www.google.com, type in miserable failure without quotes or
>anything and hit the 'i'm feeling lucky' button. Just do it.
>
>Dan
>
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