Google Politics
Google has a political orientation?
Today for some reason I wrote “john” into Google search and pressed the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. Next page was http://www.johnkerry.com/.
-break->
As next step I tried “george” to see how polite it is, as expected, it’s not Bush’s page, but [The George Washington University|http://www.gwu.edu]. Neither “bush” brings to his site, but to the Whitehouse. Apparently georgebush.com goes to his party page and the Whitehouse should be his site.
Is that a coincidence?
Anyway, I am a european guy, without interested that much in US politics, neither I am standing on any of the parties there, and possibly would never searched for these if the term “john” would not bring me to a political page. I like Google search, it makes my life easier and I never need to search for political terms :)
Update:
- [MassPerception.com|http://www.massperception.com/2005/09/13/the-great-google-tells-all/] has a similar story about the term “failure”.
- [Samicola|http://samicola.blog-city.com/googles_politics.htm] reports the same as I.
- Ruper Myers: [University Google Politics|http://rupertmyers.blogspot.com/2005/09/university-google-politics.html]
- Microcontent News: [Google Time Bomb|http://www.microcontentnews.com/articles/googlebombs.htm]
- Wikipedia: [Google bomb|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_bomb]
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