Individual and Community

Google ‘failure’ and see results

You can go to www.google.com and enter the word “failure” and note the 1st result. Because so many people refer to this failure of a president as a failure,George Bush’s white house is the number 1 result in Google search results for the term ‘failure’.

This began in the fall of 2005 . Google itself even offers an explanation as to the reason for this result in their post ‘Googlebombing ‘failure’.

In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush’s website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don’t condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we’re also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up.
source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html