Blogger Launches 'Google Bomb' At McCain

hhavensteincw writes "A liberal blogger has launched a 'Google bomb' project aimed at boosting Google search results for nine news articles showing Sen. John McCain in a negative light. The Computerworld article notes: 'Chris Bowers, managing editor of the progressive blog OpenLeft, is launching the Google bombs by encouraging bloggers to embed Web links to the nine news stories about McCain in their blogs, which helps raise their ranking in Google search results. Bowers is reprising a similar Google bombing effort he undertook in 2006 against 52 different congressional candidates. "Obviously, it is manipulating, but search engines are not public forums and unless you act to use them for your own benefit, your opponent's information is going to get out there," Bowers said.'"

Comments

Re:Yeah, that'll help . . .

[speedtux]

Oh, but they do when your choice is limited.

Obama may not be anybody's ideal candidate, but he would be far better for the country than McCain.

And after the Republican sleaze campaigns of the past, I simply don't give a damn how Obama wins (as long as it's legal).

Re:Yeah, that'll help . . .

[Omestes]

I smell a bit of unthinking bias there.

The way I see it, conservatives think that business is the end goal of all things, and that we need a healthy underclass to keep things profitable. Thus they want to hand money to corporations, since it should, in theory, move down the ladder. If it doesn't, thats okay, since the CEOs are happy.

Liberals want to accept any populist notion as a good thing, but generally think that the poor needs more support than the rich.

Basically, conservatives steal from the poor and give to the rich, while liberals do the opposite.

Conservativims is generally also tied to ideas of theocracy, while liberalism is tied to PC ideologies, and as stated (somewhat innacurate, since a theocracy is ALSO a nannystate) intituting a nanny state.

So basically we have the relio-fascists versus the nanny-socialists.

Neither seems that... good. Though in practice, they generaly amount to the same thing, turning America into a third world-country though greed, graft, and corruption. Not to mention unrealistic dogmatism.

I'd prefer we had a real progressive party, and a real libertarian party. Convervativism, and Liberalism are a hoax. People who put one above the other are brainwashed. Both sides are equally evil, and both sides are capable of having some good ideas.

What is needed for America is lots of ideological opposition. Open minded opposition.