Liberals Throw Google ‘Bombs’ at GOP
It’s called the “Google bomb” and liberals are using it to attack 50 Republican candidates they have targeted for defeat in the Nov. 7 elections.
Using complicated computer programs, the Google bombers are able to direct Web searchers to selected articles about specific GOP members of Congress meant to disparage them.
In examples cited by The New York Times, anyone using the Google search engine for information about Arizona Republican Sen. Jon Kyl will be directed to an April 13 article from The Phoenix New Times, an alternative weekly which says that Kyl “has spent his time in Washington kowtowing to the Bush administration and the radical right, very often to the detriment of Arizonans.”
A Googler looking for information about “Peter King,” the Republican congressman from Long Island, would bring up a link to a Newsday article headlined “King Endorses Ethnic Profiling.”
The Google bomb ploy is the brainchild of Chris Bowers, a contributor at MyDD.com (Direct Democracy), a far-left group blog. He told the Times that the articles chosen “Had to come from news sources that would be widely trusted in the given district. We wanted actual news reports so it would be clear that we weren’t making anything up.”
