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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.'"
Actually it's a pull up for Democrats.
I've got 101 mod points and you can't have them!
Rather than a "miserable failure," he'll be a "clone of a miserable failure."
While the lefties have started a "Fight with smear" campaign.
How can we spin this so we can make those evil Republicans look bad?
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power lost.
The bomb Iran song.
On topic, Getting your friends to link to you is not a Google bomb. Making a farm of fake blogs is. Google does what it can to tell the difference.
A 20-year-old liberal in 1958 would be a 70-year-old paleoconservative now.
Sad thing is that paleoconservatism is dead. The neocons of today aren't the liberals of yesterday; they're something else. They're not reactionary; they're just plain greedy.
John McCain supporters probably only search Fox News anyhow.
Table-ized A.I.
Even the rhetoric betrays sharply divergent mindsets...
I might say it this way:
Conservatives say ceding control of our polity to large corporations and those lucky enough to control them will bring prosperity. Liberals say ensuring everyone has the opportunity to contribute will.