Voters @ MindSay 
elections
"Google bombing" is a relatively new term, used to describe a technique bloggers use in order to get other bloggers like themselves to post links to specific web pages or articles that increase their page rank in the Google system. This is done so that when certain keywords are searched, the results will likely show up within the first 50 results. This strategy is used by bloggers when they have an opinion and they want it heard fast. The more links they can get people to post, the closer that article will be to the top of the search results.
With that being said, right before election season, bloggers are working hard to get information about candidates known to the public, whether this strategy is considered "fair" or not. Chris Bowers, the managing editor of political blog OpenLeft has been launching Google bombs with the help of his readers by encouraging bloggers to post links to nine news stories about John McCain that could possibly hurt his chances of becoming the next president.
The articles being linked refer to McCain "voting to filibuster a minimum wage hike" and "the Senate passing an expanded GI bill despite opposition from McCain." Within five days, the first story had risen eight slots, making it the 42nd result while the second story had risen 16 slots, making it the 35th result for search term "John McCain."
Bowers is not campaigning for Obama, however he is obviously campaigning against McCain. He plans to have at least three of the nine articles appear within the top 10 search results for "John McCain" by Labor Day.
Strategies such as this one have been used during campaigning in the past. Is this a fair and free way to advertise or should Google do something to keep this under control? After learning about this strategy to make ideas more known, do you trust your results as facts or opinions?
Contributed by cas
MySpace generation set to eclipse influence of Boomers, Gen-Xers: For the full article by Carla Marinucci at SFChronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/04/20/MNN7107FVE.DTL
Excerpted from the article:
Who are the influential Millennial Voters? (Source: "Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube and the Future of American Politics," Morley Winograd and Michael Hais
* Born between 1982-2003, the largest and most diverse generation in history, numbering roughly 100 million, or a third of the total U.S. population.
* More optimistic and upbeat than Gen-Xers or Baby Boomers before them, they believe they have a greater chance of bringing about social change.
* Technology-born and bred on YouTube, Google, Napster, Facebook, MySpace and other innovations.
* Have "confidence in the federal government" and have no fear of having a role in it.
* Two-thirds say things in Amerca are currently "off track."
* Place greater significance on their feeling about Republican and Democratic parties.
* Voted for Democratic house candidates over Republicans by 60 to 30 percent.
Sadly, they have a point. You gotta love the Onion!
In The Know: Candidates Compete For Vital Idgit Vote
Matt Sanchez is an embedded reporter for World Net Daily in Iraq. He provides a perspective that the Mainstream Media (MSM) has little courage to report honestly because of President Bush hatred. Any smacking of success stories from the troop surge undermines Leftist Democrats and Leftist MSM from their agenda of bringing down the influence of the Christian Right Conservatives and neoconservatives. Currently the former and latter groups I have mentioned are the victims of a relatively successful epithet propaganda campaign. In other words the Left is trying to convince the voting public that the war is the result of the Christian Right and neocon influence and they are correct. The conclusion the Left wishes to impose on the voting public is that the War on Terrorism in Iraq is an abject failure. Thus vote Leftist Democrat even though they have no viable solutions (other than abandoning the mission) to win the war initiated by President Bush supporters.
That solution is mere hate propaganda by the Left to regain political control of America to continue the eradication of Biblical morality and the transformation of America into a Secular Humanist value system that normalizes disgusting lifestyles and denigrates the Christian foundations of America’s heritage.
The ruthless Democrats will use any tool to win voters for their ultimate goals even if it means proclaiming the War on Terrorism and the coming clash with radical Islam a loss and something to flee. That plays well with voters that have become impatient with the war not ending microwave style, i.e. the quick zap and leave.
Since the MSM controls most of the dissemination of information to the public, the microwave generation listens. These are voters that care more about what happens to provide their comfort zone and family life in the now rather than the consequences of bad choices for the future. For the most part this chunk of voters listening to MSM propaganda is not political. If they vote at all it is because of unhappiness that the government is blamed for.
So we have the politically Slanted Right via alternate modes of media (Blogs and the few Slanted Right news outlets) vying with information dissemination of the Slanted Left MSM which supports Slanted Left Democrats. The non-political Joe American that merely wishes to live and pursue happiness votes on the scale that perpetuates their life goals. For these voters (again if they vote) the vote is cast for the person they believe will maintain their pursuit of happiness regardless of political affiliation. These are the voters that were enraged with righteous indignation at the occurrence of 9/11. And these are the voters that the Slanted Left have been working to erase the memory of the attack on American soil on 9/11.
Whew! That felt good.
Anyway back to WND embedded reporter Matt Sanchez.
Sanchez writes how Sunni’s are beginning to reach out to American Troops of the Surge because of the murderous rampage of al-Qaeda-Iraq (AQI). Read it and allow it to influence your thought patterns. Remember 9/11!
Moonbat State Legislators in California are preparing to overturn the people’s Proposition 22 that passed with 2/3 of those voting which defined marriage as between one and one woman. The Leftists, Secular Humanists, Homosexual Activists, the Moonbat State Judiciary and even Republican Governator Schwarzenegger are preparing to overturn the statute that was passed overwhelming by the citizens of California. Indeed if Proposition 22 was a State Amendment instead it would be the Law of California that only Federal Legislation or the Federal Judicial system could overturn.
This is a classic example of the attack on Christianity that stands for Biblical morality. American Moonbats and homosexual activists have long had an agenda to transform America into an egalitarian moral relativist Secular Humanist nation thus terminating America’s heritage of Christianity.
This agenda is Christophobic. It is an agenda that utilizes the term “homophobia” as accusation of racism as if homosexuals were not moral deviants. Two-Thirds of the voters of California understand Biblical morality even if they are not dedicated to follow the way of Christ. No one is perfect; the duty of humanity is to find the road to perfection. Even murderous Islamists comprehend that there is a Creator that has created a natural order of things.
I am a Christian and I admit I am not perfect; however I seek the Creator of the natural order not the Creator’s natural order as something superior to the Creator. That is the essence of Secular Humanism: Humanity is all there is and humanity’s sentient existence is the highest order of all that exists; thus humanity is arbiter of right and wrong relative to what is right in humanity’s eyes. Secular Humanism is a religion with the collective of humanity as its god without even understanding that agenda is Theo-humanism denying the moral standard of natures Creator.
Part of that natural order is God Almighty created male and female to perpetuate nature’s various species. Many Conservative theologians believe there are two creation stories of humanity because the first represents the two individuals Adam and Eve: Adam created from the dust of the earth and Eve from the person of Adam; the second creation story is the Creator created male and female with Adam representing the males and Eve representing the females. In both cases God created Adam and Eve for the natural order of producing children and nurturing them; God did not create an unnatural of Adam and Steve or Andria and Eve.
Showing 1 - 5. [ Next ]