Note in 2025:

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George W Bush has been Google-bombed!

If you visit Google nowadays, and try searching for the words “miserable failure”, the first entry that will come up is the biography of the president on the website of the White House!

The trick is possible because Google searches more than just the contents of web pages - it also counts how often a site is linked to, and with what words.

Thus, members of an online community can affect the results of Google searches - called “Google bombing” - by linking their sites to a chosen one.

You can find the entire BBC article here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3298443.stm

So, here, I will be a responsible citizen of the Net and I will do my part:

miserable failure

Cover image: Emperor Bush - Photo: Associated Press - taken from BBC.com