George Walter Bush is one TOUGH president. I do not think that there are many men that could successfully fill his shoes without going into a deep depression. After the most successful attack against the USA since Perl Harbor, he had no choice but to strike back. It is now 5 1/2 years since the start of full-scale war against terrorism, and the leader of the free world is in big trouble. Not only is a large majority of the Islamic world and other countries against the war, but he is also facing trouble at home. The Democratic Party has seized control over both the Senate and the House of Representatives, he has the lowest approval rating a US president has ever had, and he is also having problems with the armed forces. It is not easy to be the President of the United States.

Google, one of the most powerful companies both in the US and in the world has done a lot of damage to the efforts in the war against terror. The engineers and PhD’s in the Googleplex might not have done anything illegal, but it would not be to unfair to say that they are knee deep in the blood of US servicemen, US allies and most importantly the blood of the civil population in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to the Iraq body count 60.000 civilians have been killed in Iraq alone, another estimate is 650.000 dead civilians. One could only guess what the numbers would have been without Google assisting the terrorists.

Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God.I am confident that Muslims with the help from Google will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.
-Osama bin Laden

1. They have funded terrorism.According to the Search Engine Journal. By giving a allowing ads to be served on all sorts of sites belonging to terror networks. And paying little attention to click fraud, botnets and click bots, advertisers from all over the world has though Google helped pay for terror activities. To make matters worse Google and Googles share holders has profited from this criminal activities.
2. They have provided terrorists with intelligence data. With detailed satellite maps provided by Google Earth Iraqi terrorists has been able to plan more deadly strikes against UK bases in Iraq. Not only does this make it more dangerous to be a soldier in Iraq, it also makes it harder for the soldiers to do their job, to provide security for the civil population and hunt down the terrorists. It is not like Google doesn’t know that there is a war in Iraq, they could easily have removed the country from Google earth. There are just no excuse for helping the enemy.

So what about the hand-job? The web page www.whitehouse.gov/president has until today ranked as #1 in Google for the search phrase miserable failure, and it should rank well for that term because that’s what a lot of people associate with that page. It was not a result of spamming and it is was not an abuse of the Google ranking algorithm, it was a perfect example of a page with a accurate ranking. Google has now tweaked the algorithm to remove this page from the results for the miserable failure search, instead the top positions are filled with news stories about the white-house ranking for miserable failure. The results have all of a sudden become less relevant. But no other examples of “google bombing” has been affected. Just look at the search phrase nigritude ultramarine, the blogger Ani Dash won a SEO competition using a similar tactics as other bloggers used to get the president to rank for miserable failure. So the claimed algorithm change has only affected a single page, why would the engineers at Google go a head and give president Bush a hand-job? My guess is that they are hopefully feeling bad for sabotaging the war against terrorism. It is at least a small guesture of good will against the White House. What is your guess?

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The photo of George Bush is in the public domain.

The photo of Osama bin Laden is copyrighted and taken from AP photo archive, ID number 2928492 (006JW). The use of this image on this blog qualifies as fair use.