# Google: Miserable Failure?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [December 11, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381 "2003-12-11T16:50:29Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/1 "2003-12-11T16:50:29Z")

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Go to [http://www.google.com](http://www.google.com), type “miserable failure”, and click “I’m feeling lucky.” Google automatically sends you to the most appropriate website.

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**Author:** ![Menocchio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de053/32.png) [@Menocchio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Menocchio)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/2 "2003-12-11T16:54:59Z")

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Yes. It’s called Google-Bombing. It’s a joke, and proves nothing except there’s quite a few people who don’t like Bush.

See Snopes: [http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp](http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/google.asp)

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**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/3 "2003-12-11T16:55:36Z")

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Yep. It’s a [google bomb](http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm). Where is the Great Debate?

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**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/4 "2003-12-11T16:59:48Z")

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Indeed. This seems to be more like MPSIMS territory.

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**Author:** ![eli\_the\_fanatic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ccd318/32.png) [@eli\_the\_fanatic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eli_the_fanatic)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/5 "2003-12-11T17:00:52Z")

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You are correct, dalovindj. There is no longer any debate that GWB is a miserable failure.

However, this should have been a BBQ Pit thread. I was careless, and would be fine with having it moved.

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**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/6 "2003-12-11T17:03:05Z")

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Since this thread is fizzling, a quick question: is there some website with a repository for humorous google bombs? Or are they pretty much passed along by word of mouth?

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2003, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/google-miserable-failure/218381/7 "2003-12-11T19:53:24Z")

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Is Google™, itself, responsible for the gag from the OP?

I was under the impression that it was, generally, the result of outside pranksters using their blogs (as noted in [this definition](http://www.microcontentnews.com/resources/glossary/googlebomb.htm) and [this Op Ed piece from Microcontent News](http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm)).

If this is the case, the blog targets (and hence the bombs) could change on a daily basis. (I somewhat expect some sort of bomb war between supporters of GW Bush and supporters of the Democratic candidate next summer, where something like “_worst presidential candidate_” seesaws back and forth between [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) (or the re-elect GWB home page) and the Democratic front-runner’s homepage, each page being the target of “I’m Feeling Lucky” on alternate days.)