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I can’t believe Yahoo let those guys into there database! This is why Google owns all and why everyone dislikes The Bush Admin.
I just like the fact that when you type in “miserable failure” in Google, the first result is George W Bush’s biography.
Kevin1980 wrote:I just like the fact that when you type in “miserable failure” in Google, the first result is George W Bush’s biography.While i think its really funny as well, it also concerns me from an seo point of view since “miserable” and “failure” don’t appear anywhere in the text of that page. Why is the bush bio ranked first for that phrase. I guess Google only knows.
First off, the title of the piece is a bunch of political bs.
Yahoo admits it let White House access its databases
Yahoo did not admit that the White House requested access to its database. They said the Department of Justice did. They are not one and the same. This is liberal journalism which is fodder for another time.
This is not a Republican or Democratic problem that will correct itself with the next administration. This is a battle for power and control that goes beyond party lines. The opponent will use everything available to them to gain that power. They will claim justification via laws that do not exist, they will enforce these laws with legal entanglements that are designed to drain the resources of any who engage in battle. They will utilize government tools like the IRS and the court system and the ugliest thing about all of this is they are paid to do this with our tax dollars.
This isn’t going to go away no matter who is elected next term. We’re in serious trouble here. We need a hero.
Andre wrote:While i think its really funny as well, it also concerns me from an seo point of view since “miserable” and “failure” don’t appear anywhere in the text of that page. Why is the bush bio ranked first for that phrase. I guess Google only knows.Ok, i found the answer to my own question on the same google search page.
“A ‘Google bombing’ effort has tied the phrase ‘miserable failure’ to President Bush’s biography in the Google search engine” – from the following page:
xhttp://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp
I wish someone would Google bomb my page, i’ll supply the relevant key words though.
Last I looked the Patriot Act (and similar legislation), which opens the door for these actions, was passed by both Democrats and Republicans.
This is what happens in a representative democracy. Perhaps next time we have an attack or a little adversity, we won’t fold our liberties like a cheap suit.
One more civil liberty being trampled on, just another stepping stone on the way to loosing rights to privacy in the US. Just wait until the DOJ subpenas the major ISPs to find out who has been gambling online.
The interesting contradiction is the Government doing this in the name of child safety, but Yahoo claiming they gave no personal information (I guess that means IP addresses). So how exactly is the Government supposed to be matching up access to pornography with underage users? Even with an IP address, how do you know the user is underage? Smells like they are really looking for something else. Surprised they didn’t use the “we need this to fight terrorism” defense.
