Lies, Damn Lies

Miserable Failure

I love the miserable failure google bomb. Its got two amusing things going for it. First, despite it being an insult to the president of the united states, its been up there for about 6 months now. Hmm, that might be an exaggeration, but this story first appeared quite a long time ago, and oddly it has not been upsurped yet.

This is odd. For those who do not know how google bombs work, basically google rates pages on links leading to it. If popular websites with lots of links to them then link to something like the president with miserable failure, then it goes higher in the rankings. So, if blogs gang together, they can google bomb certain links. This only works with certain terms, mind- it would be far more difficult to try and grab, say, porn, and have it link to hamsterdance. But anyways, this bomb would have been created by blogs, I imagine, but as time goes on, the pages of the blog should have started going back, and the link should have disappeared into the archives, losing credibility in googles eyes. At least, as I understand it. A hell of a lot of people must have linked it. Of, course, I did at the start of my page, but the links to me are few and far between, so I don't think thats gonna be a major worry. Still, every little counts.

The other very amusing thing is that there have been attempts by the right blogsphere to capture back the term . Now clearly two problems have hindered this

1-no-one can be bothered
2-they can't agree which failure they want.

So they have both micheal moore and jimmy carter there, but the president still wins. Heh, so the attempt to claim back miserable faulure, was, in fact, a miserable faulure. Ah, irony. Or something. Right, might not be posting much this weekend as I am playing host.

posted by Mr K @ 10:29 am