Google programmers have a sense of humor (CS joke)

**JavaProgrammer** · July 28th, 2009, 12:12 PM

Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

The best was when they did "miserable failure", lol...

That wasn't a joke put forth by Google. That was a Google bomb. Here is one article that discusses the details of the Bush Google bomb: Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs.

**CarolinaGuy** · July 28th, 2009, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by JavaProgrammer

That was a Google bomb.

That is VERY interesting. I had no idea that could be done.

**phillyd2** · July 28th, 2009, 02:57 PM

You don't know how happy I was not to have understood the joke.....

**mjfletcher** · July 28th, 2009, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by JavaProgrammer

That wasn't a joke put forth by Google. That was a Google bomb. Here is one article that discusses the details of the Bush Google bomb: Google Kills Bush's Miserable Failure Search & Other Google Bombs.

Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

That is VERY interesting. I had no idea that could be done.

Remember when John Kerry ran against Bush? The regular comments about Kerry "waffling" on the issues resulted in him being google bombed. Searching for "waffle" or most any variant of it came back with the first result being the Kerry for pres website.

**dc dalton** · July 28th, 2009, 05:32 PM

Originally Posted by CarolinaGuy

That is VERY interesting. I had no idea that could be done.

Actually it can't be done any more. Google has built in measures to deal with attempts like that.

As far as the OP, I have seen that a lot from them lately. There is something wrong in their search algorithm that sometimes comes back asking if you meant [exact same word]