{"id":2401,"date":"2007-01-26T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-27T02:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2401"},"modified":"2007-01-26T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-27T02:28:00","slug":"2401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2401","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">But he <i>is<\/i> a miserable failure!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>After just over two years, Google has finally defused the &#8220;Google Bomb&#8221; that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=miserable%20failure\">miserable failure<\/a>. The move wasn&#8217;t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it&#8217;s part of an overall algorithm change designed to stop such mass link pranks from working.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2007\/01\/26\/bush_no_longer_miser.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the Google bomb was so widely reported that a search for &#8220;miserable failure&#8221; does still bring you mostly Bush-related links. Which I find amusing.<\/p>\n<p>Even more amusing? Try looking up part numbers 18851985 and 19852015 in the <a href=\"http:\/\/delorean.com\/dmcstore\/onlinestore-search.asp\">the Delorean Motors car-parts search page<\/a>. You can probably guess, but it&#8217;s still amusing. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/electroweak.livejournal.com\/15682.html\">Jon Kilgannon<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But he is a miserable failure! After just over two years, Google has finally defused the &#8220;Google Bomb&#8221; that has returned US President George W. Bush at the top of its results in a search on miserable failure. The move wasn&#8217;t a post-State Of The Union Address gift for Bush. Instead, it&#8217;s part of an &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2401\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}