Politech: FC: Off-color Google link points to George W. Bush store

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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We have an explanation here:
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,41401,00.html
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Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:12:26  -0800
From: "Karee Swift" <karee () tstonramp com>
To: declan () well com
Subject: Something I'd not expect to see...
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Apparently someone has done a little registering, or some sneaky hack,
to the George W. Bush Store (http://www.georgewbushstore.com/).  If you
type in Dumb Motherfucker in a search query, a link to the store is the
at the top of the query.  Amusing. :)  Here's the link.
http://www.google.com/search?q=dumb+motherfucker.

On the site itself, they recognize the tweak and respond with :

(Note: If you have arrived at this site through inappropriate references
 via a search engine, please be assured that we did not utilize this
language in our site, our HTML,  nor in our internet promotion of this
site. What happened was the result of a malicious act and we are
pursuing remedies through the efforts of our staff and attorneys.)

-- The oddity of the whole thing, is it doesn't look like a redirection,
 or an edit in the source.  Maybe a politechnal more bitful than I can
figure out this one?

-Karee Swift




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