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Miserable failure makes the papers
'Google figures out what everyone else already knew...'
Newsday reports: A search for the phrase "miserable failure" on Google brings up the biography of George W. Bush on the official White House Web site, in one of the more prominent search-engine manipulations with political overtones.
The phrase appears nowhere in the bio. But computer users rigged the search engine results by posting the phrase on Web pages and linking it to the Bush bio, in a technique called Google bombing.
"I thought it was absolutely one of the funniest ideas I've ever heard," said Don Waller, owner a Web design company in New York, told the paper. "This is just one of those spontaneous things that a blogger will post something and other bloggers will say, 'This is a great idea.'"
White House spokesman Ken Lisaius had no comment.
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