The Best of Google

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Well, I start with this one, the most classic of all Google results. You all know it by now, but when you search for “miserable failure” on Google, the first result that shows up will be the biography of George W Bush.

How did this happen? Well, as most techies know, this is the result of one of the most famous Google algorithms. Google analyzes the text in each link and uses that information to understand what the page linked to is all about.

So, by creating many of links to Mr. Bush, from many different sites but with that same link text (“miserable failure”), a number of people (probably a bunch) have managed to make Google believe that the biography is actually about “miserable failure”.

Classic. Any really funny.

Last Modified : August 8th, 2006
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