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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 01:34 AM
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Look what happens when you google "Romney can win"


:rofl:
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 01:37 AM
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1. Lol, it's true, it sure does.
At least for now.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 01:38 AM
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2. I smell google bomb.
Silly me thought none was doing them any longer.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 01:56 AM
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4. apparently not
at least not according to Slate...

Is Romney's lackluster support the reason behind Google's not-so-subtle suggestion? It's tough to tell without unpacking the complicated algorithms the site uses to rank search results. But so far, Romney is the only presidential candidate for whom the Google glitch applies. (And yes, we even checked Huntsman.)

It's not the first time Google search results have provided Internet users with a taste of conventional political wisdom. From 2003 until 2007, users who typed in the term "miserable failure" into the Google search bar were greeted by the official White House biography of George W. Bush. That result—like other so-called "Google bombs"—was the handiwork of users who gamed the site's search rankings by setting up large numbers of outside links to a certain page.

In this case, however, it appears that Google's less-than-charitable correction concerning Mitt Romney's chances for victory is only incidentally partisan, and not a clever trick by political pranksters. Not human ones, anyway.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2011/10/27/google_thinks_romney_can_t_win.html
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Art_from_Ark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-11 01:47 AM
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3. I got that too
Really funny :rofl:
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