The politics of Web searches.

PositionTechnology - Brief Article

A few months ago, typing the phrase "miserable failure" into Google produced the White House's official biography of President Bush. Shortly thereafter, the same search yielded links to Senator Hillary Clinton of New York. This online battle is an example of "Google bombing": manipulating search engines to produce political commentary. Google bombing takes advantage of how search engines work. Bombers get friends to link from their Web sites...

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