Political Google Bombs in The 2004 U.S. Presidential Election - First Political Google Bomb of George W. Bush

First Political Google Bomb of George W. Bush

U.S. President George W. Bush was the subject of a variety of Google bombs. "Miserable failure" was the first. In October 2003, an effort was launched to create links of "miserable failure" to the official White House biography of President Bush. In about six weeks, the link to George W. Bush's biography became the first result for "miserable failure" on a Google search. A blogger from Washington has since taken credit for starting this tactic, though the phrase had been in heavy use following its adoption as a catchphrase by the Dick Gephardt campaign.

For a time, Bush's official biography had also become the top result for both "miserable" and "failure".