It’s nice to know that, all these many years later, after all the work that was done to counteract it, the “Google Bomb” known as the “Miserable Failure” is alive and well on Bing, thank you very much.
George Bush’s biography is currently number one in Bing.  Google eventually rectified the situation algorithically, but Microsoft still [...]

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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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