If you google the word "failure" or phrase "miserable failure" the top response is currently the Official White House biography of Pres. George W. Bush. Google is blaming the practice of "googlebombing" for the results.
They say, "Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them.
By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases.
We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up."
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