To bj:
Sorry if you found my post offensive. I have nothing against, as you said
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anyone who isn't American
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. I am just against non Americans speaking for Americans just as I would not presume to speak for people of other countries. I don't live in those countries and I can't read their citizen's minds. I don't know how the majority of the people in the UK feel about Blair as I don't put much stock in polls. I don't speak with a large number of UK citizens on a regular basis therefore I can't speak as to how most people over there actually feel.
Next, I agree that
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The most famous google bombs were the ones aimed at politicians
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, however, in my uneducated opinion, Google Bombs are a way of manipulating search engine results and as such should be stopped. I don't care who or what they are used for or against. I don't see the need for someone who is writing about Google Bombs to insert his or her political opinion that
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large swathes of their respective electorates actually do think that the Google bomb targets are "miserable failures" or "liars"
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, especially when the only American he has mentioned is President Bush. To me that takes the article out of the realm of
SEO and into the realm of political opinion. It doesn't matter if that writer was writing about Bush, Blair, Clinton, Stalin or Hitler, it's still political opinion. I don't want to be forced to read someone else's political opinion in order to learn about working on the internet.
I read all of the Web Pro World posts and make almost no comments because I feel that most of you know far more than I about the internet and I'm trying to learn from the experts. I think that dburdon could have make his point about Google Bombs without inserting his own political opinion.
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