Google Showing it’s Political Bent, Again?
February 4th, 2009
Most of you probably remember the Google bomb that happened five or six or so years ago, when you could type “miserable failure” into Google, and President George W. Bush’s official biography on the White House website popped up. It took Google quite a while to get that mess straightened around – I think I read something like four years???!!! You can check it out at Fox News. Well it remained an issue until 2007 when Google created an algorithm to help detect when “Google Bombs” were happening.
So Obama is inaugurated, and instantly a Google Bomb develops, actually two of them. One for “miserable failure” and the other for “cheerful achievement”. Of course, in this case, the bomb is quickly diffused (in a matter of days, not years), and causes no undue strain on the new administration.
Now, I’d like to give Google the benefit of the doubt, as most of of the SEO world has done. I’d like to believe that it really took them four years to come up with this adjustment and put it into place. Sure, sure, pranks are not a high priority, but the fact remains that the Google bomb for Obama was cleared up pretty quick. I’d also like to point out that a positive Google bomb for Obama was as successful as the negative. Interesting…
