Failure...

Dear Kuma,

When I saw this I thought to myself, "Surely not!" And that you were being too hard on yourself. As for google searches, I only do them in desperation!

The other night I discovered that there are still Fiskes in Surnadal in the West of Norway. My great grandfather was Ivar Fiske, born 1875 in Surnadal, and there is a Fiske site, in Norwegian of course, but that shows how useles I am when it comes to google. But you may note Adam has allowed me my old by-line back. Fantastic!

Sincerely, Fredrik Fiske

Do the same with "french military victories". With a little knowledge you can have great fun on the web.

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Originally posted by TomK:
Do the same with "french military victories". With a little knowledge you can have great fun on the web.

I tried replicating your theory by googling "generous scotsmen", but got a pageful of results!

This is what i found:-

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

an explanation for your google results, kuma.
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Googlebombing 'failure'
9/16/2005 12:54:00 PM

Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products

If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We've received some complaints recently from users who assume that this reflects a political bias on our part. I'd like to explain how these results come up in order to allay these concerns.

Google's search results are generated by computer programs that rank web pages in large part by examining the number and relative popularity of the sites that link to them. By using a practice called googlebombing, however, determined pranksters can occasionally produce odd results. In this case, a number of webmasters use the phrases [failure] and [miserable failure] to describe and link to President Bush's website, thus pushing it to the top of searches for those phrases. We don't condone the practice of googlebombing, or any other action that seeks to affect the integrity of our search results, but we're also reluctant to alter our results by hand in order to prevent such items from showing up. Pranks like this may be distracting to some, but they don't affect the overall quality of our search service, whose objectivity, as always, remains the core of our mission.

oh I know ishmae.

Apparently, we are not the only anoraks.

It is funny cuz, there is a touch of truth in it, tho.

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Originally posted by Fredrik_Fiske:
But you may note Adam has allowed me my old by-line back. Fantastic!

Sincerely, Fredrik Fiske

That's great news Fred

Fredrik,

I"m glad you've got your old name back!

Dear kuma and Jon,

It will surely make me more and more able to chuckle and still be polite in the face of adversity and increasing decrepitude!

I could not be more pleased, because though it appears an alias, it is infact my middle two names. So I feel like me again!

All the best from Fredrik