Obama Is “Failure” At Google & “Miserable Failure” At Yahoo
Jan 22, 2009 at 11:03pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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
Jan 7, 2009 at 1:35pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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
Jun 23, 2008 at 8:48am ET by Barry Schwartz
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
Feb 21, 2008 at 6:07pm ET by Danny Sullivan
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?
Jan 30, 2008 at 8:56am ET by Danny Sullivan
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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