Posted by
Contrarian Guitarist on Saturday, December 02, 2006 4:58:58 PM
After reading a
news story about the “clever” Left “Google-Bombing” Republican candidates, I decided to test the results of the reported trickery. I innocently googled
“Santorum” and was disturbed to find that two, including the first, of the top five results were a reference to a 2003 attempt to redefine the term “santorum” as, and I quote here, “The frothy mix of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex.”
Now I am unaware of any word, if googled, contains within the first five results a definition page of that word. Obviously this was the work of “Google-Bombers”. Though I’m sure that while the largess of Google’s executives probably
don’t share Rick Santorum’s political or religious views, they are none too pleased that their crown jewel of the internet, the Google search engine, is thus manipulated, resulting in less accurate, if not polluted, search outcomes.
Now this sophomoric and rather sinister attempt to turn a man’s name into a word that could potentially be forbidden by the FCC, (a kind back door Orwellian consequence) has had one positive by-product, I did for the first time contribute to a candidate. Though a life long Republican, I have also been a life long musician, and therefore often low on resources for that unrelated to my job or the supporting of my family of five (no small feat in Southern California). Not any longer. I contributed $100 to Rick Santorum’s campaign.