Google gives new meaning to Bush's low approval rate

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

September 26, 2005
Google gives new meaning to Bush's low approval rate
-Posted by David Berlind @ 5:46 am

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1912



Teenagers. There's a lot of things they could be doing on the Net that most parents wouldn't be to crazy about. But mine? He and his friends are telling each other to go to Google's home page, type "failure" into the search box, and click the I'm feeling lucky button. When my 15 year-old son told me that I'd be whisked directly to George Bush's biography on the official White House Web site, I thought for sure that he and his friends had fallen victim to some ruse. They didn't. Google's I'm feeling lucky button takes you straight to the first search result that comes up if you press the normal Google Search button instead. As of the time this blog entry was published, Bush's official bio on whitehouse.gov is synonymous with "failure" on Google. I knew Bush's approval rating was going down, but…

[TrueAmerican]

1. Welcome

to last year.

[ourbluenation]

2. No need to be cheeky - come on now!

I just heard about this a few weeks ago.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Bush was "google- bombed" with "miserable failure" a year or 2 ago

[KarenS]

4. I don't care how long it's been out there

I think it's great that others are finding it!!!
:rofl:

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. That's why I posted it...I know this is old news.

:toast:

[thefloyd]

5. Japanese Bomb Pearl

Harbor.

Sorry I had to use my favorite snarky comment

[bunny planet]

7. It's been out there for awhile now but I admit it was gratifying when my

teenager told me she knew about it too.