Obama still a "miserable failure", says Yahoo
Sidin Vadukut -
Friday, January 23, 2009 2:36 PM
Just one moment before you leave heated, right of centrist, liberal comments. I am not referring to his performance. Obama's been President just for a few days and I am sure we will get plenty of chances to make digs at his presidency in the days to some.
Instead I am referring to another complicated, sucky legacy item from the Bush administration that the Obamatons will have to take care of, in addition to two wars, at least two prisons of dubious distinction, General Motors and international infamy.
Keen tube-surfers will remember the "miserable failure" conundrum of years past when entering the phrase "miserable failure" into a Google search box and clicking "I feel lucky" automatically took you to the profile page of George W. Bush at the White House website. This was the result of some concerted Googlebombing by Bush-haters. Danny Sullivan explains:
...a search for miserable failure on Google would bring up the official George W. Bush biography. This was due to a “Googlebomb” where many people had linked to his biography using those words in their links.
Eventhough Google took care of that problem, it appears that searches on Yahoo still list the presidential biography first if you search for that phrase. I was alerted by another Danny Sullivan piece today. And gave it a go:
Click on the first link and it takes you to Obama's profile page. What fun!
Here is Sullivan's piece-***-rant-***-solution to the problem. Rest assured that people at Yahoo will soon take care of this problem. In the meanwhile do Yahoo up "miserable failure" in the office and share the joy around while you still can.