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Four years versus a few days ... Some Googlers are asking why.
In 2003, President Bush's detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words "miserable failure" to Bush's official biography on the White House Web site.
The result was that when someone typed the search term "miserable failure" into the Google search box, Bush's biography rose to the top of the search results.
And, according to Fox News, that's how it stayed until 2007, when Google developed an algorithm to detect what became known as "Google bombs" and re-directed the term "miserable failure" to non-political pages.
Unfortunately for Obama, "miserable failure" reverted back to his biography when he moved into the White House. The new president was also Google-bombed with the phrase "cheerful achievement."
But this time, Google stepped in quickly, rectifying the situation in a few days, instead of four years.
The difference in time did not go unnoticed.
"You let this go on for the entire Bush administration," a reader named w3bgrrl wrote on a Google blog. "But since you bought the White House for Obama, you don't want your candidates harmed ... And your claims not withstanding, even liberals know you're liberal."
But another writer, Mikkel deMib Svendsen, gave Google the benefit of the doubt.
"I do think many of [Google employees] are liberals but I am also 100% confident that the large majority of them are also very professional people that take the job of creating a good and unbiased search engine very, very seriously," he wrote.
--- ANI
Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt will hit the campaign trail this week on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, signaling Mr. Schmidt's push for a greater voice in politics while giving the Obama campaign a boost from a highly desirable constituency.
[Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in Washington earlier this year. He plans to campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
Although the Internet-search company has numerous issues pending on Capitol Hill, Mr. Schmidt said in an interview that "I'm doing this personally," adding that "Google is officially neutral" in the campaign.
you REALLY think that was all it was?Actually as it takes time to diffuse such a bomb the first time the second time you only have to vary the algorythm a bit to take care of it.
There is no excuse for taking four years to "fix" the algorithm, as if they just discovered it...Actually as it takes time to diffuse such a bomb the first time the second time you only have to vary the algorythm a bit to take care of it.
4 years?Google just learned how to do it right, so this time it wouldn't take as long ... come on people, ever hear of 'learning'?
4 years?Google just learned how to do it right, so this time it wouldn't take as long ... come on people, ever hear of 'learning'?
lol
no, i just doubt they tried for 4 years4 years?Google just learned how to do it right, so this time it wouldn't take as long ... come on people, ever hear of 'learning'?
lol
Funny ... so after doing something once you have to relearn it? No wonder why people can watch the same thing over and over again and still think it's new.
no, i just doubt they tried for 4 years4 years?
lol
Funny ... so after doing something once you have to relearn it? No wonder why people can watch the same thing over and over again and still think it's new.
LOLno, i just doubt they tried for 4 yearsFunny ... so after doing something once you have to relearn it? No wonder why people can watch the same thing over and over again and still think it's new.
Have you ever written a program? Thought not ...
LOLno, i just doubt they tried for 4 years
Have you ever written a program? Thought not ...
yeah, cause it was so hard to do
come on, admit it
there are programs made in less time
face it, they didnt give a shit to fix it for 4 years
then finally did near the end of his last term
no, i just doubt they tried for 4 yearsFunny ... so after doing something once you have to relearn it? No wonder why people can watch the same thing over and over again and still think it's new.
Have you ever written a program? Thought not ...
come on, KK, you know full well it wouldnt take them 4 FUCKIN years to fix that google bomb issueLOLHave you ever written a program? Thought not ...
yeah, cause it was so hard to do
come on, admit it
there are programs made in less time
face it, they didnt give a shit to fix it for 4 years
then finally did near the end of his last term
It depends on a lot of factors ... the algorithm development, more important projects getting done first, etc.. If Obama was the first it would probably have taken about as long this time, but once you know what to look for and how to tell the computer to find it all you have to do is change the original code a little when the same thing happens. You just want to find favoritism even when there is none.
Google just learned how to do it right, so this time it wouldn't take as long ... come on people, ever hear of 'learning'?
domesticly, i would agree, he pretty much abdicated his responsibility as a check on congressional spending to try to "get along"Bush II was a miserable failure.
Google, nevertheless, should have fixed that algrithm, sooner.
Their political bias was showing, I think.
domesticly, i would agree, he pretty much abdicated his responsibility as a check on congressional spending to try to "get along"Bush II was a miserable failure.
Google, nevertheless, should have fixed that algrithm, sooner.
Their political bias was showing, I think.
yet no one ever gave him credit for that, and wrongly called him "divisive"
what a crock
but in his job as CinC he did an ok job
what a fucking DUMB thing to sayLOL. OK, it takes four years to fix what a liberal did to the google engine, but only a few days to fix what a conservative did. Simple proof that conservatives are nowhere as near as smart as liberals.
