prosperity Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Maybe this is gaming the system by internet marketers, but I'd call it savvy. Obama now ranks #1 for the search term "miserable failure". I think that's appropriate. http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=miserable%20failure Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Link Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The subject you've chosen for this thread is completely misleading. John Link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prosperity Posted March 25, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The subject you've chosen for this thread is completely misleading. John Link ??? How so. He's listed #1 for the term "miserable failure". I thought it was funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haemp Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 No there is nothing misleading about it. How do they do that? Adjust the meta tags on the whitehouse site? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juxtys Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The funny thing is that they display the white house website, not some capitalist website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benpercent Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The title is misleading because it states that Yahoo itself is advocating Obama as the #1 failure whereas your first post states that Obama is the #1 result for the search term "miserable failure". The difference is that of what a company's opinion is and what people happen to be looking up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake_Ellison Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 I don't have the patience to verify this info, but it seems that not only is this a deliberate effort on the part of a small group of people to do searches in a way that manipulates terms, and creates this result, but in fact this whole effort was directed at the former President (Bush), and now Obama is just inheriting it. (because they replaced his name with Bush's on the White House website, and the searches are being redirected). Either way, a pretty pointless thread, and it definitely doesn't reflect yahoo's opinion of the President (former or current), as the title misleadingly suggests. The whole thing does (seem to) reflect their relative incompetence (Google fixed this same problem a long time ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheEgoist Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The same thing happened with Bush. Welcome to the internetz, population vindictive a-holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Link Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 The title is misleading because it states that Yahoo itself is advocating Obama as the #1 failure whereas your first post states that Obama is the #1 result for the search term "miserable failure". The difference is that of what a company's opinion is and what people happen to be looking up. Exactly! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-Mac Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 I didn't get that at all. Even so, talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prosperity Posted March 26, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 No there is nothing misleading about it. How do they do that? Adjust the meta tags on the whitehouse site? The power of backlinks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Space Patroller Posted March 26, 2009 Report Share Posted March 26, 2009 Well, here's the Google end of things http://www.google.com/search?q=miserable+f...lient=firefox-a Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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