New Campaign Tactic - Google Bombing

jeian writes "My Direct Democracy, a liberal group blog, is trying out a new campaign tactic — Google bombing. From the New York Times article: 'Searching Google for Peter King, the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.' Google's policy has typically been to not intervene and let the algorithms work by themselves, but could this change if Google-bombing becomes a common tactic?"

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Oh, good. They're liberal

[Anonymous Crowhead]

So it's ok what they are doing. Good thing they weren't neocon fundies. Even though they are too stupid to figure out something like this, it would not be ok for them to do it.

A very neutral summary...

[avalys]

I wonder if the article would have been as carefully neutral if it had been a Republican group using this technique against a Democrat.

Actually, I don't wonder. I'm fairly sure people would be frothing at the mouth and labeling the Republican a fascist, demanding his immediate resignation and calling for a law making this sort of thing illegal.

Google's Policy

[Nom du Keyboard]

Google's policy has typically been to not intervene

Actually, I rather suspect that Google's policy is to not intervene as long as Republicans are being pilloried. Were things going substantially the other direction, this would have been fixed long before now.