Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo

I told you so. Or I told anyone who cared. I even tried to reach the Obama administration in four or five different ways. Do a search on Yahoo right now for miserable failure, and you'll find President Barack Obama's page ranking either in the top spot or the second spot. Given a redirect that Obama's web team has put into place, he should solidify into that number one spot over time. Eventually, Microsoft's Live Search should reflect that, as well. And over at Google, Obama will likely gain a top page listing for a search on failure. I know. There are bigger issues Obama has to [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Link Building: Link Bombs, SEO: Redirects & Moving Sites, Search & Society: General, Top News


Bush: Fix Your “Miserable Failure” Googlebomb Legacy Before Obama Takes Office

Few realize that outgoing US president George W. Bush has left behind a unique legacy for future presidents, including Barack Obama -- that they are all condemned to rank tops for a search on "miserable failure" in major search engines. It's my hope that Bush will correct this before leaving office, or that Obama will fix it soon after he's inaugurated. Below, more about the situation and how it could be solved. Google Kills Bush’s Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs is my article from January 2007 that covers the history of how it came to be that for many years, a s [...]

Filed in: Features: Analysis, Link Building: Link Bombs, Search & Society: General, Top News


John McCain’s Google Bomb

Chris Bowers is trying to push in certain articles into the Google search results for a search on [john mccain]. His goal is to "Google Bomb" these articles into the search results before Labor Day. ComputerWorld has a write up on his efforts. But as Danny described in the past, this type of Google Bomb is likely something that Google cannot fix. There are nine articles Bowers is trying to Google Bomb to the top of the Google search results. Here is a listing of them and where they currently rank now for searches on both [john mccain] and [mccain]. (1) John McCain Votes to Filibuster Mi [...]

Filed in: Google: General, Google: Web Search, Link Building: General, Link Building: Link Bombs, Search & Society: General


Bush – Tops For “Who Is A Failure” On Google

For years, US President George W. Bush was tops on Google for searches on miserable failure until last year's Googlebomb "fix" solved his problem on Google. But Bush is back, sort of. People are spotting that Bush's official White House page is ranking tops for who is a failure on Google. A new Googlebomb? If so, I've not seen any reports of people pushing to make this happen. My bet is that all those links out there with anchor text saying "failure" in them are making him come up for a variety of terms combined with "failure." And in fact, he looks to have bee [...]

Filed in: Google: SEO, Link Building: Link Bombs


Scientologists Google Bombed Or Not?

Just days after the one-year anniversary of Google's Google bomb fix, a new Google bomb may have gotten through -- dangerous cult, bringing up the Scientology web site, as shown above. But is it really getting past the fix? Considering one of the targeted words is being used on the page itself, it's hard to say. Both WebProNews and Google Blogoscoped have short stories on the listing. But as I noted in comments at WebProNews, the fix was designed to prevent pages from being Google bombed to the top if they do NOT use the words they are being bombed for on them. For example, "miserable [...]

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