When you put the word "failure" into the Google search box and hit the
i'm feeling lucky button it goes directly to the Presidents biography
on the Whitehouse.gov website.  Why is that?  Does someone pay for
that to happen?  If so Who?

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Request for Question Clarification by pinkfreud-ga on 09 Sep 2005 16:25 PDT

Does this provide a fully satisfactory answer to your question?

http://deepquest.code511.com/blog/comments.php?id=120_0_1_0_C

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Clarification of Question by all4him-ga on 09 Sep 2005 17:41 PDT

Perfectly.

I'm glad you found my response satisfactory! I've reposted the link
below, with a few more links about "Google bombing" that I think
you'll find interesting.

DeepQuest: Miserable failure: whitehouse.gov ?
http://deepquest.code511.com/blog/comments.php?id=120_0_1_0_C

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Someone Set Us Up the Google Bomb
http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp

Wikipedia: Google bomb
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb

ABC News: Web Posters Launch Anti-Bush 'Google Bomb'
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=99625&page=1

Alan November Weblog: The Google Bomb!
http://www.novemberlearning.com/blogs/alannovember/archive/2004/08/02/239.aspx

My Google search strategy:

Google Web Search: bush "google bomb"
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=bush+%22google+bomb%22

Best regards,
pinkfreud

Certainly a great answer.  

It does point to a fundamental flaw in Google that really any
corporation could easily exploit to their advantage. Google should
really find a way to prevent this activity before it gets out of hand.

Thank you very much for the five stars and the nice tip!

~pinkfreud

Hello All4him,

Just a follow up - it is interesting that searching for
  +failure +inanchor link:www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
or as a URL
  ://www.google.com/search?q=%2Bfailure+%2Binanchor+link%3Awww.whitehouse.gov%2Fpresident%2Fgwbbio.html
brings up a number of sites (over 8000?) that appear to refer to text
that appeared originally at
  http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/6/24.aspx

So a side effect of explaining this particular "Google Bomb" has
increased the visibility of this particular hack.

  --Maniac