For years, US President George W. Bush was tops on Google for
searches on miserable
failure until last
year’s Googlebomb "fix" solved his problem on Google. But Bush is back,
sort of.

People are

spotting that Bush’s official White House page is ranking tops for
who is a failure
on Google.
A new Googlebomb? If so, I’ve not seen any reports of people […]

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Starting Conversations with Contact Pages Starting out with my first website in 1996, I hadn’t realized that one of the most important pages that I had put on the site was a contact page. With […]

Starting out with my first website in 1996, I hadn’t realized that one of the most important pages that I had put on the site was a contact page. With a copy of “Learn HTML in 2 Weeks” at my side, and a design that reflected my limited skills, I wasn’t aware of my […]

SES London has now wrapped up by now. I have found some coverage for the day, but if I missed anything, please Sphinn the thread below and add more coverage that way. Here is what I found for day three:
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The Quintura Blog repeats a rumor that Google may be poised to buy the Ukrainian portal Bigmir.net, the leading Ukrainian destination site with 2.5 million users. Quintura speculates the deal might be worth $100 million and says online advertising in the Ukraine was worth an estimated $12 million in 2007.
If it were true, Google […]

The very long awaited Google Health may be about to launch. The New York Times and CNN have reports this morning that Google and the Cleveland Clinic are announcing a pilot program that reportedly will involve the creation of personal health profiles on Google for anywhere between 1,500 and 10,000 patients. These profiles will include […]

Ask.com has announced that they have added site statistics from Compete.com to the binoculars feature in the search results. Now, instead of just getting a site preview, you also get estimated visitor stats, site rank, a line chart to plot this data over time and a link to a more detailed report over at […]

As expected Google announced another push to get advertisers and publishers to utilize video ads. Yes, Google did a pilot video ad program back in May 2007 and then another video ad push in October 2007 but Google has said they learned a lot from these tests programs and has made some changes to […]

Google says ISP glitch exposes Gmail data in Kuwait from News.com has confirmed reports that a Gmail user in Kuwait has inadvertently accessed about 30 Gmail accounts that were not his. Supposedly, he also accessed an email that had “keycodes for some embassy gate.”
Whose fault is this? Not Google! A […]

We have been covering how Google may provide internet access to those users who don’t have it yet for a while now. While the Submarine Cable Negotiator job at Google was pretty interesting, I think this new story may be even more interesting.
Floating a New Idea For Going Wireless, Parachute Included from the Wall […]