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At the risk of revealing my political sympathies, that is, he’s only no longer considered a “miserable failure” for this purpose, as BoingBoing’s say that “Google has finally defused the “Google Bomb” that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure.”
All is not entirely lost, as the top result as of now is a BBC news report on ‘Miserable failure’ links to Bush.
BoingBoing point to more on the issue from Search Engine Land and TechMeme, but Google’s Matt Cutts talks about improving the analysis of the link structure of the web and some background, on the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog, in a post entitled A quick word about Googlebombs.
Bush no longer “miserable failure”: Google tackles googlebombs
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