So — can’t win on the issues? Just Google Bomb!! The liberals believe the people who use the internet aren’t smart enough to
a) choose another search engine, or
b) read past the liberalism being displayed in the articles.
What does that say about the libs and how they feel about you the voter?
Not much uh?
It’s called the “Google bomb” and liberals are using it to attack 50 Republican candidates they have targeted for defeat in the Nov. 7 elections.
Using complicated computer geek programs, the Google bombers are able to direct Web searchers to selected articles about specific GOP members of Congress meant to disparage them.
In examples cited by The New York Times, anyone using the Google search engine for information about Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl will be directed to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly which says that Kyl “has spent his time in Washington kowtowing to the Bush administration and the radical right, very often to the detriment of Arizonans.”
A Googler looking for information about “Peter King,” the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined “King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.”
The Google bomb ploy is the brainchild of Chris Bowers, a contributor at MyDD.com (Direct Democracy), a far-left group blog. He told the Times that the articles chosen “Had to come from news sources that would be widely trusted in the given district. We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up.”
October 26th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
It’s really all just getting out of hand… we need to, first and foremost, be smart and know the difference between truth and propaganda.
We also need to tell our politicians to clean up the campaign handbook so that an election year isn’t an open invitation for the cockroaches to come out of the World Wide Web woodwork.
I consider myself a moderate conservative… but I am continually disappointed that so many on both sides engage in such bulls**t as this cesspool baiting of the internet and Google.
Good post, Jo. Thanks.
October 27th, 2006 at 1:39 pm
Um…as a long time web user…so? Anyone can run a Google Bomb (one of the many faults of search engines), there’s no way to stop them. The only way to fight back is another Google Bomb and it finally evens things out.
And I’m not defending the use of the GB, I do think it’s underhanded, but it’s just a fact in these modern times. They get used all the time for any number of reasons, businesses use them all the time, but then it has a nicer name “SEO - Search Engine Optimization”.