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Old 08-23-2006, 04:32 PM
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Go to google.com, and type in the word "failure" and do a search. See what comes up first.
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OMG, that's classic!
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Very funny, and out of 54,000,000 possible results too.
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Yep, a repost.
Failure = George W. Bush's bio
Liar = Tony Blair's bio (actually there's some other site first now, so they changed this).
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This is pretty old but still funny.
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Originally Posted by Iceman' post='326376' date='Aug 24 2006, 03:01 PM
Yep, a repost.
Failure = George W. Bush's bio
Liar = Tony Blair's bio (actually there's some other site first now, so they changed this).
Actually, Tony is still first, but see who is second.
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Considering the founders of Google are very outspoken liberals it is no surprise. Yet they seem to own a gas guzzling 767 for parties.
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Originally Posted by nickolas_g' post='326590' date='Aug 24 2006, 08:17 PM
Considering the founders of Google are very outspoken liberals it is no surprise. Yet they seem to own a gas guzzling 767 for parties.
Or maybe it is . The algorithms that control Google's results and rankings are significantly influenced by the anchor text of other web pages and the links contained in these pages - in this case links to the official sites of Messrs Bush and Blair.... George W and Tony have been "google bombed" (yes, you can google it), this isn't the handiwork of Sergey and Larry - but let's not let that get in the way of a good anti-liberal rant . BMW itself actually incurred the temporary wrath of Google for some alleged attempts to similarly manipulate the first results returned for certain searches (thankfully now cleared up) .
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What pi**es me off about the google/doorpage thing is, if I, located in Germany, want to open google.com I get redirected to google.de.
So, they are doing the same stuff, but they blame BMW on doing something like this.
In both cases you are redirected to another page with the same content, but how can they blame BMW when they do it themselfes?
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Originally Posted by Iceman' post='326708' date='Aug 25 2006, 08:57 AM
What pi**es me off about the google/doorpage thing is, if I, located in Germany, want to open google.com I get redirected to google.de.
So, they are doing the same stuff, but they blame BMW on doing something like this.
In both cases you are redirected to another page with the same content, but how can they blame BMW when they do it themselfes?
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huh? *They* blamed BMW for what? Localized redirection is very common. It's not just Google and BMW doing it.


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