The joke is on Nicolas Sarkozy \u2013 not that he\u2019s likely to find it very funny. The French president has become the latest \u201cgoogle bombing\u201d victim, with internet pranksters using the search engine to link his official Facebook webpage with the French term for “asshole,” RFI reports.<\/p>\n
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In linking a series of sites with the term “trou du cul” to Sarkozy’s Facebook profile, Google’s search motor was confused into into making the site its top result for anyone hunting for the obscene phrase.<\/p>\n
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Sarkozy’s office had no immediate comment on the prank.<\/p>\n
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Google bombing also linked former British prime minister Tony Blair’s official website to the word “liar” and former US president George Bush\u2019s site to “miserable failure.”<\/p>\n
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Releasing a statement, Google conceded that the Google bombing technique meant jokers had the power to \u201cgenerate strange results.”<\/p>\n
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“We don’t support this practice, nor any other aimed at altering the integrity of our search results, but this in no way affects the general quality of our search engine, whose impartiality is at the heart of all we do,” the company said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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