Searching For John McCain
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Chris Bowers launched an initiative to influence search engine results for John McCain, and asked readers to do so as well. Readers raised the Google pageranking of links to certain articles on McCain’s record so when voters searched for information on the candidate, those articles would be the first to come up. This effort helped voters become more familiar with McCain’s negative history on issues such as Social Security, health care for children, and the Iraq war.
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