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Google Plays Politics?

Someone tipped me off that if you search for "failure" on Google, the top result is George W. Bush's biography. I don't think the search legitimately returns this link using its algorithm for search. Instead, I'd say Google's playing politics and voicing their displeasure with the president.

However, I will admit that his biography is also among the top results at Yahoo! and MSN too. It just seems odd that these search engines would consider his bio the most relevant result when the word failure doesn't appear a single time on the bio page.

Maybe search engines have become so advanced that they can actually search the minds of American citizens.

UPDATE: Apparently there is an explanation after all. A practice called Googlebombing can force links to the top of certain searches. It seems someone has used this technique to produce the results mentioned. Continued at Google...

I included a photo of the search just in case Google corrects this or it changes.