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?"

Comments

Re:Classic Google-bomb

[Bassman59]

Google for Santorum (as in Rick Santorum) and you will see the funniest ever.

An apt description of that douchebag. He won't be a US senator for much longer, praise $DIETY.

Re:Probably not

[budgenator]

Limbaugh is a republican fanboy, not a conservative; same with Bush.

this will backfire

[CAIMLAS]

This will backfire in a classical way, I assure you. For instance, take the example provided: most reasonable people (including many an ethnic and racial minority) support racial profiling. I know of quite a few black, Indian, Arabic and yes, even Muslim people who support racial (or probably more accurately, "threat vector") profiling.

Does it make any sense to pull over Grandma Smith - or even Grandma Hadjij - when 100% of the known terrorists have been Muslim males, and predominantly black or arabic? No, it does not. I'm not saying don't look at the 6'2" caucasian guy with a skowl, I'm saying don't intentionally avoid the 6'2" Indian with a skowl (and I've seen this happen more than once - to a friend) in preference of the 65-year-old grandpa with a WWII battleship ballcap on. Britian puts us to shame in this regard.

This is just one of the many ways in which those on the Democrat side of things are detatched from most people. Not that the Republicans are terribly in touch with what people want, either, mind you.