According to this article on Webpronews:
"Google may have fixed a link bomb in January that had President George W. Bush listed as the top results for "failure" or "miserable failure", but now due to a White House oversight the President is once again ranked number one for the search term "failure" on Google."
Apparently, the page was removed, but the appearance of the word "failure" on a White House webpage was enough to detonate the bomb again. The reason the word appeared? Complaining about Congress' "failure" to give him a bill he could sign for funding for the war in Iraq.
I think that would be some of that poetic justice, being dished out by the Internet, no?
"Google may have fixed a link bomb in January that had President George W. Bush listed as the top results for "failure" or "miserable failure", but now due to a White House oversight the President is once again ranked number one for the search term "failure" on Google."
Apparently, the page was removed, but the appearance of the word "failure" on a White House webpage was enough to detonate the bomb again. The reason the word appeared? Complaining about Congress' "failure" to give him a bill he could sign for funding for the war in Iraq.
I think that would be some of that poetic justice, being dished out by the Internet, no?
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amused


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I think it's a corollary to Gödel's theorem that you can't make a set of rules ungameable without making it unusable as well. You have to compromise between gameability and utility.