The google guys hate bush too

[FidelCastro]

search up the word failure on google and hit i'm feeling lucky then hit ctrl+f and search the word failure. It is so funny!

[rioters bloc]

it's not up to google. you can pay to make your site hit the top of the search engine, i'm not sure if its by paying google itself or by paying to get as many links to the site around the net as possible by paying for ads and stuff which boosts your 'relevancy rate' [you choose the keyword, in this case 'failure' and thats why it comes up on top.

[Nothing Human Is Alien]

Nah you don't pay them..


A Google bomb or Google washer is a certain attempt to influence the ranking of a given page in results returned by the Google search engine. Due to the way that Google's PageRank algorithm works, a page will be ranked higher if the sites that link to that page all use consistent anchor text. A Google bomb is created if a large number of sites link to the page in this manner. Google bomb is used both as a verb and a noun.


On 16 September 2005 Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products for Google wrote on Google Blog an apology to those who were offended by the result of President George W. Bush's biography with the search of "failure", "miserable", and "miserable failure", stating that Google has no control over and does not condone the act of Google bombing. Apparently, people who sent in complaints believed that the search results showed Google's political bias.

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. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission. (Source: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/goo...ng-failure.html (http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/09/googlebombing-failure.html) )

[Clarksist]

To be honest, it is quite funny to see President Dubya's face after hitting typing in "failure"... and so vindicating in a way that Google won't change it.