Beware the Google Bomb

[Valin]

NRO: The Corner:

Andrew Stiles
10/8/10

Old-fashioned get-out-the-vote efforts are fine, says Daily Kos, but tech-savvy smear campaigns are a lot more fun.

The liberal blog is inviting its readers to “make a big difference in 2010” by taking part in a “very different, but still very important, form of election activism.”

It’s called grassroots-based search-engine optimization, or Grassroots SEO. It’s also known as Googlebombing, and the goal is to try to influence undecided voters by overloading search-engine results with negative news articles about Republican candidates in competitive districts. The more people are clicking on links to these articles, the higher they’ll appear in Google searches, and (as one can imagine where this train of thought continues) the more mindless boobs will read the articles, and proceed to march zombie-like to the polls to vote for the Democrats.

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[Pepper]

Works both ways, however.

[Stella]

Then people wonder why the cases of kids cyberbullying is way up. The people who do this know no bounds.

[Jill]

How lame. Leave it to the koskommies to come up with something like this, hoping that voters use a search engine they try to rig in their favor. They could instead, post their candidate's record and run on that, but that's exacly what they DON'T want to do, better to smear the oppostion with their MSM cheerleaders' help.