Republican activists have managed to successfully carry out a “Google Bomb”.  When the phrase “Worst Failure Ever” is entered into Google, the first result listed is that of the Obama Administration.
A Google bomb (A.K.A. “link bomb”) is a slang term for an attempt to raise the search engine ranking of a page in [...]

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It’s true.  According to Search Engine Land, this story is particularly interesting and goes back quite a few years.
Here’s how it happened. When the Googlebomb campaign started back in December 2003, people were told to use the words “miserable failure” and link to Bush’s biography here:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
That page started ranking very [...]

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