Google takes 4 years to address Bush Googlebomb, 4 *days* to fix Obamabomb

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 30th at 10:00 PM  | 

According to FoxNews.com: It took four years for Google to address the “Google bomb” that was lobbed at former President Bush. But it took the Internet behemoth only a few days to defuse the same attack on President Obama. … In 2003, President Bush’s detractors successfully gamed the Google search engine by arranging to have countless Web sites link the words “miserable failure” to Bush’s | Read More »

The Google Carbon Footprint Open Thread

By: Jeff Emanuel (Diary)  |  January 11th at 06:11 PM  | 

A tip of the cap to loyal RedStater Kenny Solomon on this one: Revealed: The environmental impact of Google searches – Physicist Alex Wissner-Gross says that performing two Google searches uses up as much energy as boiling the kettle for a cup of tea Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling a kettle | Read More »